East of East : : The Making of Greater El Monte / / ed. by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft.

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• MitwirkendeR: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas,; Barragan, Yesenia,; Bray, Mark,; Cady, Dan,; Cheng, Wendy,; Espinoza, Alex,; Fernandez, Melquiades,; Fragoza, Carribean,; Goodman, Adam,; Guzmán, Romeo,; Herrera, Juan,; Jaime-Becerra, Michael,; John, Maria,; Juravich, Nick,; Kobayashi Deckrow, Andre,; Lynch, Daniel,; Macías, Stacy I.,; Margarita Plummer, Toni,; Medina, Daniel,; Morales, Apolonio,; Morales, Daniel,; Newman, Rachel Grace,; Plascencia, Salvador,; Reft, Ryan,; Reid, David,; Renteria, Jennifer,; Roy, Aurelie,; Sayf Cummings, Alex,; Webre, Jude P.,; Weller, Michael S.,; Wilson, Karen S.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Barragan, Yesenia.; Bray, Mark.; Cady, Daniel.; Cheng, Wendy.; Cummings, Alex Sayf.; Deckrow, Andre Kobayashi.; Espinoza, Alex.; Fernandez, Melquiades.; Fragoza, Carribean.; Goodman, Adam.; Guzmán, Romeo.; Herrera, Juan.; Jaime-Becerra, Michael.; John, Maria.; Juravich, Nick.; Kokinis, Troy Andreas Araiza.; Lynch, Daniel.; Macías, Stacy I.; Medina, Daniel.; Morales, Apolonio.; Morales, Daniel.; Newman, Rachel.; Plascencia, Salvador.; Plummer, Toni Margarita.; Reft, Ryan.; Reid, David.; Renteria, Jennifer.; Roy, Aurelie.; Webre, Jude.; Weller, Michael.; Wilson, Karen.
• HerausgeberIn: Cummings, Alex Sayf,; Fragoza, Carribean,; Guzmán, Romeo,; Reft, Ryan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 33 B-W photographs and images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte -- Part I. Origins and Departures -- Introduction -- 1. The Tongva People -- 2. Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape -- 3. From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family -- 4. Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth-Century El Monte -- Part II. Social and Political Movements -- Introduction -- 5. Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte's White Supremacy Movements -- 6. Ricardo Flores Magón and the Anarchist Movement in El Monte -- 7. Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 -- 8. Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte -- 9. "City of Achievement": The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976 -- 10. ¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement -- 11. Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement -- 12. American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory -- 13. Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte since 1965 -- Part III. Nature and the Built Environment -- Introductions -- 14. Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio -- 15. Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles -- 16. From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte and Subsistence Homesteading -- 17. A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater San Gabriel Valley -- 18. Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement -- 19. Transportational El Monte: From the Red Car to the Freeway -- 20. The Starlite Swap Meet -- Part IV. Popular Culture -- Introduction -- 21. El Monte's Wild Past: A History of Gay's Lion Farm -- 22. Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's Charmed Life on the Air -- 23. El Monte's Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce -- 24. Punk and the Seamstress -- 25. A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding Out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack -- 26. All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty Shaking -- Part V. Literary Cartographies -- Introduction -- 27. 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 -- 28. Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard -- 29. Epiphany Catholic Church -- 30. Rush Street -- 31. Durfee Avenue -- Epilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index