Latino Los Angeles : transformations, communities, and activism /
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| Imprint: | Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5843362 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Latina/o Los Angeles in context / Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
- 2. Indispensable migrants : Mexican workers and the making of twentieth-century Los Angeles / Martin Valadez Torres
- 3. Perilous passage : Central American migration through Mexico / Edur Velasco Arregui and Richard Roman
- 4. Why women migrate : Salvadoran and Guatemalan women in Los Angeles / Kristine M. Zentgraf
- 5. Economic restructuring and labor organizing in southeast Los Angeles, 1935-2001 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe
- 6. Indigenous Mexican migrants in a modern metropolis : the reconstruction of Zapotec communities in Los Angeles / Daniel Melero Malpica
- 7. Two sides of the same coin? : the relationship between socioeconomic assimilation and entrepreneurship among Mexicans in Los Angeles / Zulema Valdez
- 8. The formation and transformation of Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles / Susan Bibler Coutin
- 9. Negotiating Latinidade in Los Angeles : the case of Brazilian immigrants / Bernadete Beserra
- 10. Black face, Latin looks : racial-ethnic identity among Afro-Latinos in the Los Angeles region / Anulkah Thomas
- 11. Justice for janitors Latinizing Los Angeles : mobilizing Latina(o) cultural repertoire / Maria A. Gutierrez de Soldatenko
- 12. Constructing Chicana and Chicano studies : 1993 UCLA conscious students of color protest / Michael Soldatenko
- 13. Organizing immigrant workers : action research and strategies in the Pomona Day Labor center / Jose Z. Calderon, Suzanne F. Foster and Silvia L. Rodriguez
- 14. Latinos in Los Angeles : select review of Latino/a scholarship and resources / Ester E. Hernandez.
