El Cine Yost and the Power of Place for Mexican Migrants in Orange County, California, 1930–1990

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ID11699455
AuthorsDavid-James Gonzales (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume39
Issue4
Pages42-59
Publication date2020-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Ethnic History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0278-5927 • E-ISSN: 1936-4695
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/jamerethnhist.39.4.0042
OpenAlexW3043033772
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited3

This article explores the history of El Cine Yost (The Yost Theater) in Santa Ana, California, and the role of the Louis and Phoebe Olivos Sr. family in creating space for the development of ethnic Mexican identity and community in Orange County, California from 1930 to 1990. Alongside traditional archival materials, this article draws on oral history interviews, photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings obtained from the Olivos family and patrons of El Cine Yost to demonstrate the emotional ties that individuals and communities form to space and place, as well as the identities and relationships that emerge out of them. In this people-and-place–centered narrative, I argue that El Cine Yost exemplifies the central connections between space, place, and identity in the lived experiences of ethnic Mexicans across the US-Mexico borderlands. Further, this history disrupts the master narrative of Orange County as a place of Anglo-American/European settler history, which has ignored and left undocumented the affirmative presence and contributions of Latinas/os in the region

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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