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Boyle Heights
How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
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Boyle Heights
How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
About this book
The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. Sánchez
The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts—the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities—built up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval.
Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. Sánchez
The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts—the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities—built up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval.
Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.
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served
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over
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organizing
collective
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community
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brought
together
different
generations
of
Boyle
Heights
residents
that
had
rarely
met
before:
today’s
largely
recent
Latino
immigrants
and
an
older
group
of
white,
Jewish,
African
American,
Asian
American,
and
Latino
citizens
who
had
first
entered
Boyle
Heights
in
the
mid-twentieth
century
but
who
no
longer
lived
in
the
community.
In
anticipation
of
one
of
these
forums,
Mollie
Wilson
Murphy
looked
into
the
back
corner
of
her
closet
where
she
stored
letters
that
she
had
held
onto
“for
too
long,”
as
she
later
told
us
in
one
of
the
interviews
conducted
for
the
museum.
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this
back
corner
she
had
safeguarded
her
correspondence
with
friends
to
whom
she
had
written
every
day
once
they
were
taken
away
from
Boyle
Heights
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internment
camps
during
World
War
II.
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had
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1.
Mollie
Wilson
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Boyle
Heights
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Japanese
American
National
Museum
(Giſt
of
Mollie
Wilson
Murphy,
2000.378.2).
Table of contents
- Cover
- Boyle Heights
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America
- Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles
- Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid
- Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods
- Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment
- Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside
- Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism
- Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio
- Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary
- Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights
- Time Line
- Mayor and City Council Lists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index