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5 Ιουλ 2010 · 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...
dovetail with those of Griswold del Castillo in his work, The Los An-geles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History (1979), namely that while outsiders saw the Mexicanos strictly as transients and agricultural workers they were really settling deeply into the emerging metropolis and becoming an integral part of it.
This is the story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles." How did this barrio of over one million men and women-occupying an area greater than Manhattan or Washington D.C.-come to be?
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 …
1 Ιαν 1983 · Romo covers the Mexican origins of LA, the takeover of the city by Anglos in the late 1840s, the fascinating way in which whites subjugated browns to a second-class position in the late 19th century, and then goes into the seminal period from 1900 - 1930, when refugees from the Mexican Diaz dictatorship began forming a huge Mexican-American ...
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
Who these Mexicans were and the conditions that caused them to leave their own country are revealed in East Los Angeles. The author examines how they adjusted to life in one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, how they fared in this country's labor market, and the problems of segregation and prejudice they confronted.
