Race, place, and reform in Mexican Los Angeles : a transnational perspective, 1890-1940 / Stephanie Lewthwaite.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewthwaite, Stephanie, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Government policy > California > Los Angeles Region > History.
Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation > California > Los Angeles Region > History.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles Region > Social conditions.
Urban renewal > California > Los Angeles Region > History.
Los Angeles Region (Calif.) > Social policy.
Physical Description:xii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Documenting a new urbanism
  • Settlement women and the "courts of Sonoratown," 1894-1906
  • "Writing reform" : the Sonoratown anthologies
  • The better city : progressives, housing, and the evolution of a "Mexican" problem
  • From Americanization to repatriation
  • "Reading Mexico," making Americans : immigrant education during the era of Americanization
  • The iconography of the "Mexican" slum : plague, housing, and documentary photography
  • Landscapes of labor: reforming the camp and colonia
  • New deal or old deal?
  • Race, pastoralism, and rural rehabilitation
  • The "Mexican" slum revisited : the case of public housing
  • Intercultural programs for reform under the good neighbor policy.