Latino Los Angeles : transformations, communities, and activism /

Latino Los Angeles : transformations, communities, and activism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ochoa, Enrique, Ochoa, Gilda L., 1965-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles > Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles > Economic conditions.
Immigrants > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Community life > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnicity > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration.
Latin America > Emigration and immigration.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Ethnic relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Latina/o Los Angeles in context / Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
  • Indispensable migrants : Mexican workers and the making of twentieth-century Los Angeles / Martin Valadez Torres
  • Perilous passage : Central American migration through Mexico / Edur Velasco Arregui and Richard Roman
  • Why women migrate : Salvadoran and Guatemalan women in Los Angeles / Kristine M. Zentgraf
  • Economic restructuring and labor organizing in southeast Los Angeles, 1935-2001 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe
  • Indigenous Mexican migrants in a modern metropolis : the reconstruction of Zapotec communities in Los Angeles / Daniel Melero Malpica
  • Sides of the same coin? : the relationship between socioeconomic assimilation and entrepreneurship among Mexicans in Los Angeles / Zulema Valdez
  • The formation and transformation of Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles / Susan Bibler Coutin
  • Negotiating Latinidade in Los Angeles : the case of Brazilian immigrants / Bernadete Beserra
  • Black face, Latin looks : racial-ethnic identity among Afro-Latinos in the Los Angeles region / Anulkah Thomas
  • Justice for janitors Latinizing Los Angeles : mobilizing Latina(o) cultural repertoire / Maria A. Gutierrez de Soldatenko
  • Constructing chicana and chicano studies : 1993 UCLA conscious students of color protest / Michael Soldatenko
  • Organizing immigrant workers : action research and strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center / José Z. Calderon, Suzanne F. Foster, and Silvia L. Rodriguez
  • Latinos in Los Angeles : select review of Latino/a scholarship and resources / Ester E. Hernández.