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Many immigrants lived in segregated urban barrios (neighborhoods), such as East Los Angeles. One photograph shows three men, one with a guitar, in front of a family home in Anaheim. Another shows children playing behind houses in their Boyle Heights barrio, with downtown Los Angeles in the background.
14 Ιουν 2019 · Mexican Americans -- California -- East Los Angeles -- History, Mexican Americans -- California -- East Los Angeles -- Social conditions, East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History, East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions Publisher Austin : University of Texas Press Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor
The particular places discussed are El Barrio in Manhattan, New York; El Segundo Barrio and Chihuahuita in El Paso, Texas; and Barrio Logan in San Diego, California. While these neighborhoods could be considered Hispanic barrios, there are important differences across these three sites.
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Romo examines the changes in early twentieth-century Los Angeles which transformed this city into a modern metropolis with the largest concentration of Mexicans in the nation by 1930.
In the early evening of 3 June 1943, just as the sun set over a city darkened by a blackout, about 50 sailors stationed at the Naval Reserve Training School in Los Angeles stormed through the mostly …
How did this barrio of over one million men and women—occupying an area greater than Manhattan or Washington D.C.—come to be? Although promoted early in this century as a workers' paradise, Los...
