This is a study of the creation of jazz, swing and R & B music within the multicultural, multi-ethnic terrain of Los Angeles. It presents a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar LA as seen through the evolutions of dance styles, nightlife and - …
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A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R & B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles during and after World War II.
Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialisation, labour subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialisation, labour subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
"Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America tells the story of the making of a shared Latinx and Asian America over the past fifty years. Historically this solidarity has been difficult to see because Asian and Latinx immigrants have often been described in opposing terms of des…
The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican-American community in East Los Angeles. With the recent "Eastside Renaissance" in the area, b…
Introduction : Chicana/o radicalism, transnational organizing, and social movements in Latin America -- Cartographies of the Chicana/o Left -- Mexico, anticommunism, and the Chicana/o movement -- Nuevo teatro popular across the Américas -- "Somos uno porque América es una" : qui…
