Boyle Heights

From George J. Sánchez, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of Latino history, comes Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy. The book is both a labor of love and a well-chosen community study: the former because Boyle Heights is the neighborhood where the author’s parents settled upon arriving from Mexico in the late 1950s; the latter because this section of Los Angeles presents an early example of the kinds of demographic changes that have transformed many neighborhoods in American cities both big and small. Sánchez focuses on “how this community came to be a thriving multiracial neighborhood, what challenges it faced in maintaining a sense of community over time, and how the legacy of this progressive multiracialism continued to exert a powerful influence over residents when the neighborhood became overwhelmingly Latino in the last third of the twentieth century”...

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