Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 / George J. Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, George J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Ethnic identity.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Ethnicity--California--Los Angeles.

Ethnicity.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

California--Los Angeles.

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

xiv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One. Crossing borders : Farewell homeland

Across the dividing line

Newcomers in the City of Angels

Part Two. Divided loyalties : Americanizartion and the Mexican immigrant

The 'New Nationalism, ' Mexican style

Part Three. Shifting homelands : Family life and the search for stability

The sacred and the profane : Religious adaptations

Familiar sounds of change : Music and the growth of mass culture

Workers and consumers : A community emerges

Part Four. Ambivalent Americanism : Where is home? The dilemma of repatriation

Forging a new politics of opposition

The rise of the second generation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American.

ISBN:

0195069900

9780195069907

0195096487

9780195096484

OCLC:

27172116

Publisher Number:

http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37441665b uri

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