Ebook: Shameful victory: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine
Author: Laslett John H. M
- Tags: Hispanic American neighborhoods, Hispanic American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century, Land use, Land use--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century, Mexican Americans, Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century, Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions, Mexican Americans--Social conditions, Politics and government, Public housing, Public housing--California--Los Angeles, Race relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE--General, History, Electronic bo
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
- City: California;Los Angeles;Chávez Ravine;Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles;Calif.);Los Angeles (Calif.);Tucson
- Language: English
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Building a unique barrio -- Mexicans on the hilltop : gaining a foothold, 1830-1929 -- Prelude to a crisis : race, patriotism, and public housing in depression and war, 1929-1949 -- Public housing, evictions, and the impact of the Red Scare -- Struggling to keep our homes : the evictions crisis, 1950-1952 -- Political consequences : the defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953 -- Building Dodger Stadium -- L.A. pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959 -- Dodger success and the history of minority displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1990 -- Chavez Ravine in the light of subsequent history -- Have LA's urban renewal policies been adequately reformed? -- Chavez Ravine's cultural legacy.;"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.
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