Becoming Mexican American Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

Name: Becoming Mexican American Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
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ISBN: 9780195096484

ISBN-10: 0195096487

ISBN-13: 9780195096484

Edition: 1995

Authors: George J. Sanchez, George J. Sï¿½nchez, George J. Sanchez, Gonzalo J. Sanchez

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Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sanchez explores the process by which temporary sojourners altered their orientation to that of permanent residents, thereby laying the foundation for a new Mexican-American culture. Analyzing not only formal programs aimed at these newcomers by the United States and Mexico, but also the world created by these immigrants through…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Farewell Homeland



Across the Dividing Line



Newcomers in the City of the Angels



Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant



The """"New Nationalism,"""" Mexican Style



Family Life and the Search for Stability



The Sacred and the Profane: Religious Adaptations



Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture



Workers and Consumers: a Community Emerges



Where is Home?: the Dilemma of Repatriation



Forging a New Politics of Opposition



The Rise of the Second Generation


Conclusion


Appendix: On Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index