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Shameful victory the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine
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Shameful victory [electronic resource] : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine / John H.M. Laslett.
ISBN
0816532354
9780816532353
081650086X
9780816500864 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodger Stadium and the arrival of the team to Chavez Ravine"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 US Regional Studies, West.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Building a unique barrio
Mexicans on the hilltop : gaining a foothold, 1830-1929
Prelude to a crisis : race, patriotism, and public housing in depression and war, 1929-1949
Public housing, evictions, and the impact of the Red Scare
Struggling to keep our homes : the evictions crisis, 1950-1952
Political consequences : the defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953
Building Dodger Stadium
L.A. pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959
Dodger success and the history of minority displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1990
Chavez Ravine in the light of subsequent history
Have LA's urban renewal policies been adequately reformed?
Chavez Ravine's cultural legacy.
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