- Object ID
García, Matt
- Title
A world of its own race, labor, and citrus in the making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 / Matt García
- Imprint
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001
- Description
xx, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles Region--Social conditions--20th century
Whites--California--Los Angeles Region--Social conditions--20th century
Agricultural laborers--California--Los Angeles Region--Social conditions--20th century
Citrus fruit industry--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles Region--History--20th century
Community development--California--Los Angeles Region--History--20th century
Intercultural communication--California--Los Angeles Region--History--20th century
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Ethnic relations
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Economic conditions--20th century
- Series
Studies in rural culture
- Note
Includes bibliographical references [305]-321) and index
The ideal country life: the development of citrus suburbs in Southern California -- The ”Colonia Complex” revisited: Racial hierarchies and border spaces in the citrus belt, 1917-1926 -- Friends of the Mexicans?: Mexican immigration and the politics of social reform -- Just put on that Padua Hills smile: The Mexican players and the Padua Hills Theatre, 1931-1974 -- Citrus in the war years: Gender, citizenship, and labor, 1940-1964 -- Memories of El Monte: dance halls and youth culture in greater Los Angeles, 1950-1974 -- Sol y Sombra: the limits of intercultural activism in post-citrus greater Los Angeles
- Call Number
F 869 .L89 A253 2001
- Collection
Autry Library