East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the)

By: Alex Espinoza and Michael Jaime-Becerra and Wendy Cheng and David Reid and Karen Wilson and Michael Weller and Mark Bray and Carribean Fragoza and Romeo Guzmán and Alex Sayf Cummings and Ryan Reft and Aurelie Roy and Maria John and Daniel Lynch and Daniel Cady and Yesenia Barragan and Melquiades Fernandez and Rachel Newman and Nick Juravich and Juan Herrera and Adam Goodman and Daniel Morales and Daniel Medina and Andre Kobayashi Deckrow and Jennifer Renteria and Jude Webre and Troy Andreas Kokinis and Apolonio Morales and Stacy I. Macías and Toni Margarita Plummer and Salvador Plascencia

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Synopsis: East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978805507
Related ISBNs:: 9781978805491, 9781978805484
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/14/20
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Romeo Guzmán
Edited by:: Carribean Fragoza
Edited by:: Alex Sayf Cummings
Edited by:: Ryan Reft