Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pathbreaking civic history. . . . A historical journey through the beginning, middle, and present of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Sánchez counters the fear that shrouds its image and allows us to understand why this neighborhood is the way it is — powerful and pure of heart." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
“In the annals of Chicanx history, only a few historians stand heads and shoulders above the rest. One of those is George J. Sánchez whose recent publication . . . leaves off where his award-winning Becoming Mexican American made its mark roughly three decades ago.”
* Latino Book Review *
"A remarkable book." * Housing Studies *
"The author has written this valuable history in clear and concise language. Scholars as well as civic activists and government officials concerned with social and racial justice and with urban planning will find the book useful and enlightening. It would also work well in graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses concerned with those areas. The interested layperson will find it straightforward and comprehensible."
* Journal of Urban Affairs *
"Coherent, sweeping, dazzling." * Pacific Historical Review *
Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America
Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles
Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid
Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods
Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment
Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside
Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism
Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio
Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary
Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights
Time Line
Mayor and City Council Lists
Notes
Bibliography
Index
