Description
Book SynopsisIn Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the 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.
Trade Review"By uncovering the hidden story of how Mexican Americans came to dominate the East Los Angeles suburbs, González not only offers much-needed insight into the postwar Mexican American experience, but also bridges Chicana/o and suburban history in critical and heretofore unexplored ways." -- Monica Perales * author of Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community *
"González has produced a definitive work on the Mexican American suburban experience, full of nuance and surprises, and demanding a deep rethinking of the meaning of the American suburban dream." -- Becky Nicolaides * author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 *
"Documents how Mexican-Americans came to be the majority population in the suburban San Gabriel Valley." * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"New Books Network" podcast interview with Jerry Gonzalez * New Books Network *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
1. The Lands of Mañana 14
2. Mexican Americans and the Suburban Ideal 46
3. El MAPA to the Suburban Ideal 75
4. Suburban Renewal 103
Epilogue: Let’s Take a Trip . . . 131
Acknowledgments 139
Notes 145
Index 193
