Tejanos and California Chicanos: Regional Variations in Mexican American History: The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 . Arnoldo De Leon, Kenneth L. Stewart. ; They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 . Arnoldo De Leon. ; East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio . Ricardo Romo. ; Community under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975 . Rudolfo Acuna.

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a “Spanish fantasy heritage” that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a “zoot” (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American “gangsters” of the 1940s were described as racial mongrels. What's more, the newspapers explicitly identified them as the sons and daughters of immigrants-thus eliding any link they may have had to the Californias/os of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or to the history of Los Angeles in general.

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The semiotics of the deictic field: Reckoning language and experience in East Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Geography ◽

10.1017/jlg.2021.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 40-49

Author(s):

Dana Osborne

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mexican Americans ◽

Critical Time ◽

East Los Angeles ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Single Speaker ◽

Symbolic Value ◽

Formative Experiences ◽

The City

AbstractThis analysis examines the ways in which a single speaker, Ana, born in mid-century East Los Angeles, organizes and reflects upon her experiences of the city through language. Ana’s story is one that sheds light on the experiences of many Mexican Americans who came of age at a critical time in a transitioning L.A., and the slow move of people who had been up until mid-century relegated largely in and around racially and socioeconomically segregated parts of L.A. These formative experiences are demonstrated to have informed the ways that speakers parse the social and geographical landscape along several dimensions, and this analysis interrogates the symbolic value of a special category of everyday language, deixis, to reveal the intersection between language and social experience in the cityscape of L.A. In this way, it is analytically possible to not only approach the habituation and reproduction of specific deictic fields as indexical of the ways that speakers parse the city, but also to demonstrate the ways in which key moments in the history of the city have shaped the emergence and meaning of those fields.

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A History of Los Angeles’ Water Supply: Towards Reimagining the Los Angeles River

A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1 ◽

10.5040/9780755694310.ch-023 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Klaver Irene ◽

Frith J

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Water Supply ◽

Los Angeles River ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Los Angeles

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Dictionary of Mexican American History

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/1901204 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 953

Author(s):

Albert M. Camarillo ◽

Matt S. Meier ◽

Feliciano Rivera

Keyword(s):

American History ◽

Mexican American ◽

Mexican American History

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John R. Chávez. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968–1993. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 321. $45.00

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/106.2.610 ◽

2001 ◽

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Stanford University ◽

East Los Angeles ◽

History Of

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The Chicano Movement: Mexican American History and the Struggle for Equality

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology ◽

10.1163/15691497-12341465 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (1-2) ◽

pp. 31-52

Author(s):

Carlos Muñoz

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Mexican American ◽

Historical Context ◽

School Students ◽

Mexican American History ◽

Mass Protest ◽

The 1960S

Abstract The Chicano/Chicana movement was a product of the global eruption that took place in 1968. A critical understanding of this movement requires that it be put into a historical context and theoretical framework of an indigenous people who were internally colonized by the expanding us Empire after the end of the us-Mexico War of 1846-48. Violent and nonviolent struggles took place prior to the 1960s over the issues of land, social justice, and civil rights. The first nonviolent and largest Mexican American mass protest in us history occurred in the Spring of 1968 in East Los Angeles, California, where over ten thousand Chicano high school students walked out of their inferior and racist barrio high schools. The student walkouts ignited the emergence of the Chicano civil rights movement. The movement’s positive contributions and failures will be discussed. Discussion will conclude with a critical analysis of Mexican American struggles in the present age of “Trumpism”.

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