Research Catalog

Title

East of east : the making of greater El Monte / edited by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft.

Publication

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Guzman, Romeo
• Fragoza, Carribean
• Cummings, Alex Sayf
• Reft, Ryan

Description

x, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte."

Series Statement

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States

Uniform Title

Latinidad.

Alternative Title

Making of greater El Monte

Subjects

• Popular culture
• El Monte (Calif.) > History
• Biographies
• California > El Monte
• History
• El Monte (Calif.) > Biography
• Manners and customs
• Popular culture > California > El Monte > History
• El Monte (Calif.) > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Burn the wagon: finding silenced histories, lost intersections, and radical possibilities in greater El Monte / by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Reft -- Part 1. Origins and departures -- The Tongva people / by Aurelie Roy -- Toypurina: a legend etched in the landscape / by Maria John -- From alta california to american statehood: race, change, and the Californio Pico family / by Ryan Reft -- Here come the El Monte boys: vigilante justice and lynch mobs in 19th century El Monte / by Karen Wilson and Dan Lynch -- Part 2. Social and political movements -- Rise, fall, repeat: El Monte's white supremacy movements / Daniel Cady -- Ricardo Flores Magon and anarchist movement in El Monte / by Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray -- Bitter fruit: the El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 / by Melquiades Fernandez -- Schools for all: the desegregation campaign in El Monte / by Rachel Newman -- City of achievement: the making of the city of South El Monte, 1955-1976 / by Nick Juravich -- La lucha continua! Gloria Arellanes and the women of the Chicano movement / by Juan Herrera -- Towards a radical arts practice: theater and muralism during the Chicano -- Movement / by Carribean Fragoza -- American dreams and immigrant realities in a South El Monte shoe factory / Adam Goodman -- Dreams of escape and belonging: the making of Asian El Monte / Alex Sayf Cummings.
• Part 3. Nature and the built environment -- Hicks Camp: a Mexican barrio / by Daniel Morales -- Life at Marrano Beach: the lost barrio beach of Los Angeles / by Daniel Medina -- From small farming to urban agriculture: El Monte subsistence homesteading / by Ryan Reft -- A community erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the greater SGV / by Andre Kobayashi Deckrow -- Whittier Narrows Park: a story of water, power, and displacement / by David Reid -- Transportational El Monte, from the red car to the freeway / by Ryan Reft -- The Starlite Swap Meet / by Jennifer Renteria -- Part 4. Popular culture -- El Monte's wild past: a history of Gay's Lion Farm / by Michael Weller -- Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe's charmed life on the air / by Jude Webre -- El Monte's wildweed: biraciality and the punk ethos of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce / by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis -- The punk & the seamstress / by Apolonio Morales -- A gay bar, some familia, and Latina butch-femme: rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte's Sugar Shack / by Stacy I. Macias -- All the zumba ladies: reclaiming bodies and space through serious booty-shaking / by Carribean Fragoza -- Part 5. Literary cartographies -- 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986 / by Michael Jaime-Becerra -- Train versus pedestrian on Valley Boulevard / by Alex Espinoza -- Epiphany Catholic Church / Toni Margarita Plummer -- Rush street / by Carribean Fragoza -- Durfee Avenue / by Salvador Plascencia -- Epilogue: East of east: suburban cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley / by Wendy Cheng -- Appendix.

Call Number

JFE 20-5339

ISBN

• 9781978805484
• 1978805489
• 9781978805491
• 1978805497

LCCN

2019017115

OCLC

1099540424

Title

East of east : the making of greater El Monte / edited by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft.

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States

Latinidad.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Guzman, Romeo, editor.

Fragoza, Carribean, editor.

Cummings, Alex Sayf, editor.

Reft, Ryan, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5339