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East of East The Making of Greater El Monte
Title
East of East [electronic resource] : The Making of Greater El Monte / edited by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft.
ISBN
1978805527
9781978805521
1978805497
9781978805484
9781978805491
Published
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource.
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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.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 US Regional Studies, West.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2020
Series
Latinidad
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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
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