In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813583150)

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world--a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley--and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.

Author: Jerry González
ISBN-10: 0813583152
ISBN-13: 9780813583150
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d