Race, place, and reform in Mexican Los Angeles
Subtitle: a transnational perspective, 1890-1940
By: Stephanie Lewthwaite
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780816526338
Subjects: Urban renewal; Mexican Americans; Government policy; Social conditions; Cultural assimilation; Social policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Documenting a new urbanism; title: Settlement women and the "courts of Sonoratown," 1894-1906; title: "Writing reform" : the Sonoratown anthologies; title: The better city : progressives, housing, and the evolution of a "Mexican" problem; title: From Americanization to repatriation; title: "Reading Mexico," making Americans : immigrant education during the era of Americanization; title: The iconography of the "Mexican" slum : plague, housing, and documentary photography; title: Landscapes of labor: reforming the camp and colonia; title: New deal or old deal?; title: Race, pastoralism, and rural rehabilitation; title: The "Mexican" slum revisited : the case of public housing; title: Intercultural programs for reform under the good neighbor policy.