East of east : the making of greater El Monte / edited by Romeo Guzmán [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guzman, Romeo, editor.

Series:

Latinidad.

Latinidad

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--California--El Monte--History.

Popular culture.

El Monte (Calif.)--Biography.

El Monte (Calif.).

El Monte (Calif.)--History.

El Monte (Calif.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte." --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 3. Nature and the built environment

Hicks Camp: a Mexican barrio / by Daniel Morales

Life at Marrano Beach: the lost barrio beach of Los Angeles / by Daniel Medina

From small farming to urban agriculture: El Monte subsistence homesteading / by Ryan Reft

A community erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the greater SGV / by Andre Kobayashi Deckrow

Whittier Narrows Park: a story of water, power, and displacement / by David Reid

Transportational El Monte, from the red car to the freeway / by Ryan Reft

The Starlite Swap Meet / by Jennifer Renteria

Part 4. Popular culture

El Monte's wild past: a history of Gay's Lion Farm / by Michael Weller

Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's charmed life on the air / by Jude Webre

El Monte's wildweed: biraciality and the punk ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce / by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis

The punk & the seamstress / by Apolonio Morales

A gay bar, some familia, and Latina butch-femme: rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack / by Stacy I. Macias

All the zumba ladies: reclaiming bodies and space through serious booty-shaking / by Carribean Fragoza

Part 5. Literary cartographies

1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 / by Michael Jaime-Becerra

Train versus pedestrian on Valley Boulevard / by Alex Espinoza

Epiphany Catholic Church / Toni Margarita Plummer

Rush street / by Carribean Fragoza

Durfee Avenue / by Salvador Plascencia

Epilogue: East of east: suburban cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley / by Wendy Cheng

Appendix.

Introduction: Burn the wagon: finding silenced histories, lost intersections, and radical possibilities in greater El Monte / by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft

Part 1. Origins and departures

The Tongva people / by Aurelie Roy

Toypurina: a legend etched in the landscape / by Maria John

From alta california to american statehood: race, change, and the Californio Pico family / by Ryan Reft

Here come the El Monte boys: vigilante justice and lynch mobs in 19th century El Monte / by Karen Wilson and Dan Lynch

Part 2. Social and political movements

Rise, fall, repeat: El Monte's white supremacy movements / Daniel Cady

Ricardo Flores Magon and anarchist movement in El Monte / by Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray

Bitter fruit: the El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 / by Melquiades Fernandez

Schools for all: the desegregation campaign in El Monte / by Rachel Newman

City of achievement: the making of the city of South El Monte, 1955-1976 / by Nick Juravich

La lucha continua! Gloria Arellanes and the women of the Chicano movement / by Juan Herrera

Towards a radical arts practice: theater and muralism during the Chicano

Movement / by Carribean Fragoza

American dreams and immigrant realities in a South El Monte shoe factory / Adam Goodman

Dreams of escape and belonging: the making of Asian El Monte / Alex Sayf Cummings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-0552-7

OCLC:

1138875692