Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 /

Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sanchez, George J.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description:	xiv, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Ethnic identity. Ethnicity -- California -- Los Angeles. Ethnicity. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Social conditions Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions California -- Los Angeles.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1475574

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ISBN:	0195069900 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Farewell Homeland
Chapter 2. Across the Dividing Line
Chapter 3. Newcomers in the City of the Angels
Chapter 4. Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant
Chapter 5. The """"New Nationalism,"""" Mexican Style
Chapter 6. Family Life and the Search for Stability
Chapter 7. The Sacred and the Profane: Religious Adaptations
Chapter 8. Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture
Chapter 9. Workers and Consumers: a Community Emerges
Chapter 10. Where is Home?: the Dilemma of Repatriation
Chapter 11. Forging a New Politics of Opposition
Chapter 12. The Rise of the Second Generation
Conclusion
Appendix: On Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index