Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles 9781442251304, 9781442251298

Contemporary Los Angeles can increasingly be considered a part of Latin America. Only 200 miles from the border with Mex

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Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles
9781442251304, 9781442251298

At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate co

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This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective o

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Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the empl

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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health sha

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Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly det

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Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens. Right? Not so fast! Despite the city's reputation for spontan

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A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R&B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles d

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From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, thr

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From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, thr

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