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East of East : The Making of Greater El Monte
Title
East of East : The Making of Greater El Monte / ed. by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft.
ISBN
9781978805521
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (250 p.) : 33 B-W photographs and images
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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In English.
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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, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives-stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte
Part I. Origins and Departures
Introduction
1. The Tongva People
2. Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape
3. From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family
4. Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth-Century El Monte
Part II. Social and Political Movements
Introduction
5. Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte's White Supremacy Movements
6. Ricardo Flores Magón and the Anarchist Movement in El Monte
7. Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933
8. Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte
9. "City of Achievement": The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976
10. ¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement
11. Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement
12. American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory
13. Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte since 1965
Part III. Nature and the Built Environment
Introductions
14. Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio
15. Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles
16. From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte and Subsistence Homesteading
17. A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater San Gabriel Valley
18. Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement
19. Transportational El Monte: From the Red Car to the Freeway
20. The Starlite Swap Meet
Part IV. Popular Culture
Introduction
21. El Monte's Wild Past: A History of Gay's Lion Farm
22. Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's Charmed Life on the Air
23. El Monte's Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce
24. Punk and the Seamstress
25. A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding Out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack
26. All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty Shaking
Part V. Literary Cartographies
Introduction
27. 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986
28. Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard
29. Epiphany Catholic Church
30. Rush Street
31. Durfee Avenue
Epilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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