Shameful victory
Subtitle: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine
By: John H. M. Laslett
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780816500864
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Hispanic American neighborhoods; Land use; Public housing; Mexican Americans; Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.); Social conditions; History
Description: "The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodger Stadium and the arrival of the team to Chavez Ravine"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Building a unique barrio. Mexicans on the hilltop : gaining a foothold, 1830-1929; title: Prelude to a crisis : race, patriotism, and public housing in depression and war, 1929-1949; title: Part II. Public housing, evictions, and the impact of the Red Scare. "Struggling to keep our homes" : the evictions crisis, 1950-1952; title: Political consequences : the defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953; title: Part III. Building Dodger Stadium. L.A. pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959; title: Dodger success and the history of minority displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1970; title: Part IV. Chavez Ravine in the light of subsequent history. Have L.A.'s urban renewal policies been successfully reformed?; title: Chavez Ravine's cultural legacy.