UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Latin American History \| Latino Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| Criminology \| Criminology Publisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!): nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 Author: Chávez, Ernesto 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| Sociology \| Politics \| Social Problems \| Immigration Publisher's Description: ¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale - in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: L.A. city limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present Author: Sides, Josh 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| African American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass - embodying both the best and worst of what urban America off . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The price of poverty: money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio Author: Dohan, Daniel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Urban Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities - one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens - this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern Californ . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gendered transitions: Mexican experiences of immigration Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Geography \| Sociology \| California and the West \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: How the other half works: immigration and the social organization of labor Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Labor Studies \| Immigration \| Chicano Studies \| Social Problems \| Urban Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors tha . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Los Angeles and the automobile: the making of the modern city Author: Bottles, Scott L Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: American Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history. Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Latin American History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman Author: Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel 1931- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| Chicano Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies \| California and the West \| Geography \| United States History Publisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles Author: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Water \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Behind the label: inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry Author: Bonacich, Edna Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| Labor Studies \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare st . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Popular Culture \| Chicano Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Contemporary Music Publisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Immigration \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles Author: Mulholland, Catherine 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct - a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal - that brought . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Japanese American celebration and conflict: a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 Author: Kurashige, Lon 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particula . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexic . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border Author: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Labor Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Immigration \| Politics \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more] Similar Items