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Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine / / John H. M. Laslett



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Autore: Laslett John H. M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine / / John H. M. Laslett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 979.4/94
Soggetto topico: Public housing - California - Los Angeles
Mexican Americans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Hispanic American neighborhoods - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Land use - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Mexican Americans - California - Los Angeles - Social conditions
Soggetto geografico: Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960's, 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Shameful victory  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8165-3235-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910466922603321
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