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