In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles / Jerry González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Jerry, author.

Series:

Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States.

Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.)--History.

Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.).

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles Suburban Area.

Mexican Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world-a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley-and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Lands Of Mañana

2. Mexican Americans And The Suburban Ideal

3. El MAPA To The Suburban Ideal

4. Suburban Renewal

Epilogue: Let'S Take A Trip . . .

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About The Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780813583174

0813583179

9780813583181

0813583187

OCLC:

990778358