In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : : Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles / / Jerry González.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: González, Jerry,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 6 figures, 4 maps

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world-a 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. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Lands Of Mañana -- 2. Mexican Americans And The Suburban Ideal -- 3. El MAPA To The Suburban Ideal -- 4. Suburban Renewal -- Epilogue: Let'S Take A Trip . . . -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author