Latino Los Angeles
Subtitle: transformations, communities, and activism
By: edited by Enrique C. Ochoa, Gilda L. Ochoa.
Contributors: Ochoa, Enrique.; Ochoa, Gilda L., 1965-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780816524662; 9780816524686
Subjects: Community life -- California -- Los Angeles; Ethnicity -- California -- Los Angeles; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Politics and government; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Economic conditions; Immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration; Latin America -- Emigration and immigration; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
Description: "As the twenty-first century begins, Latina/os represent 45 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County, making them the largest recial/ethnic group in the region. At the same time, the shift from manufacturing to a service-based economy in the area has contributed to a decline in good-paying jobs, significantly impacting working class families. These transformations have created a backlash that has included state propositions impacting Latina/os and escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric-and Latina/os of all backgrounds are making their voices heard."

"Until recently, most research on Latina/os in the U.S. has ignored historical and contemporary dynamics in Latin America, just as scholars of Latin America have generally stopped their studies at the border. This volume roots Los Angeles in the larger arena of globalization, exploring the demographic changes that have transformed the Latino presence in LA from primarily Mexican-origin to one that now includes peoples from throughout the hemisphere. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, it combines historical perspectives with analyses of power and inequality to consider how Latina/os are responding to exclusionary immigration, labor, and schooling practices and actively creating communities. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Latina/o Los Angeles in context / Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa; title: Indispensable migrants : Mexican workers and the making of twentieth-century Los Angeles / Martin Valadez Torres; title: Perilous passage : Central American migration through Mexico / Edur Velasco Arregui and Richard Roman; title: Why women migrate : Salvadoran and Guatemalan women in Los Angeles / Kristine M. Zentgraf; title: Economic restructuring and labor organizing in southeast Los Angeles, 1935-2001 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe; title: Indigenous Mexican migrants in a modern metropolis : the reconstruction of Zapotec communities in Los Angeles / Daniel Melero Malpica; title: Sides of the same coin? : the relationship between socioeconomic assimilation and entrepreneurship among Mexicans in Los Angeles / Zulema Valdez; title: The formation and transformation of Salvadoran community organizations in Los Angeles / Susan Bibler Coutin; title: Negotiating Latinidade in Los Angeles : the case of Brazilian immigrants / Bernadete Beserra; title: Black face, Latin looks : racial-ethnic identity among Afro-Latinos in the Los Angeles region / Anulkah Thomas; title: Justice for janitors Latinizing Los Angeles : mobilizing Latina(o) cultural repertoire / Maria A. Gutierrez de Soldatenko; title: Constructing chicana and chicano studies : 1993 UCLA conscious students of color protest / Michael Soldatenko; title: Organizing immigrant workers : action research and strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center / José Z. Calderon, Suzanne F. Foster, and Silvia L. Rodriguez; title: Latinos in Los Angeles : select review of Latino/a scholarship and resources / Ester E. Hernández.