Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 /

Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 / George J. Sánchez.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanchez, George J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [1993]
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Crossing borders : Farewell homeland
  • Across the dividing line
  • Newcomers in the City of Angels
  • Part Two. Divided loyalties : Americanizartion and the Mexican immigrant
  • The 'New Nationalism, ' Mexican style
  • Part Three. Shifting homelands : 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
  • Part Four. Ambivalent Americanism : Where is home? The dilemma of repatriation
  • Forging a new politics of opposition
  • The rise of the second generation
  • Conclusion.

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