Interview: William Deverell discusses the Mexican history of Los Angeles and Southern CaliforniaRENEE MONTAGNE
In the late 1920s, anti-Mexican sentiment spiked as theGreat Depressionbegan. As the stock market tanked and unemployment grew, Anglo-Americans accused Mexicans and other foreigners of stealing American jobs. Mexican Americans were discouraged and even forbidden from accepting charitable aid. ...
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the growth of the Mexican population in the United States had been attributed mainly to immigration of men looking for work. But with the increased arrival of Mexican women, restrictionists
Some Chinese laborers married American Indian and Mexican women during the period of exclusion, in spite of anti-miscegenation laws in virtually every state. Since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, intermarriage has become more common as U.S. society becomes more open and Chinese ...
Departmentwerecomplicitin attacks on Mexican Americans by U.S. servicemen during the so-calledZoot Suit Riots, reflecting the department’s history of hostility toward Hispanics (Latinos). Regular harassment ofhomosexualsandtransgenderpersons by police inNew York Cityculminated in 1969 in theStonewall ...
I decided to try and make a group of African-Americans in Los Angeles, I said I'd do it through art, because I felt that if they knew that my intent was social or civic that they wouldn't come.More That's the L.A. that I came here for. ...
In terms of grammar, syntax, and spelling there are no important differences between the two, but the pronunciation and sound are different. Certain words from the principal Indian language (Nahuatl) are incorporated into Mexican Spanish, especially in the domains of food and household. Some of ...
of River Street will be bulldozed to make way for a stadium and commercial district. This mirrors a similar situation in Chavez Ravine, where the Dodger’s Stadium obliterated a Mexican American community and the dearly held traditions therein. In the face of unfortunate economic realities of ...
Agua Caliente, remembers Virginia Herzog of Yucaipa, “was glamorous no end, and a real exciting experience for Americans in the era of Prohibition. . . . Tropical shrubs and flowers filled the patios and brilliant huge parrots or macaws were chained to perches. . . . When the Mexican gover...