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Title:

Latino Los Angeles : transformations, communities, and activism / edited by Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hispanic Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Economic conditions.
Immigrants--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
Community life--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Ethnicity--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Emigration and immigration.
Latin America--Emigration and immigration.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions

Other Authors:

Ochoa, Enrique.
Ochoa, Gilda L., 1965-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Latina/o Los Angeles in context / Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa -- Indispensable migrants : Mexican workers and the making of twentieth-century Los Angeles / Martin Valadez Torres -- Perilous passage : Central American migration through Mexico / Edur Velasco Arregui and Richard Roman -- Why women migrate : Salvadoran and Guatemalan women in Los Angeles / Kristine M. Zentgraf -- Economic restructuring and labor organizing in southeast Los Angeles, 1935-2001 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe -- Indigenous Mexican migrants in a modern metropolis : the reconstruction of Zapotec communities in Los Angeles / Daniel Melero Malpica -- Two sides of the same coin? : the relationship between socioeconomic assimilation and entrepreneurship among Mexicans in Los Angeles / Zulema Valdez -- The formation and transformation of Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles / Susan Bibler Coutin --
Negotiating Latinidade in Los Angeles : the case of Brazilian immigrants / Bernadete Beserra -- Black face, Latin looks : racial-ethnic identity among Afro-Latinos in the Los Angeles region / Anulkah Thomas -- Justice for janitors Latinizing Los Angeles : mobilizing Latina(o) cultural repertoire / Maria A. Gutierrez de Soldatenko -- Constructing Chicana and Chicano studies : 1993 UCLA conscious students of color protest / Michael Soldatenko -- Organizing immigrant workers : action research and strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center / Jos©♭ Z. Calderon, Suzanne F. Foster, and Silvia L. Rodriguez -- Latinos in Los Angeles : select review of Latino/a scholarship and resources / Ester E. Hern©Łndez.

ISBN:

9780816524686
0816524688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816524662
0816524661 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60743137

LCCN:

2005017394

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)