Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII -- ABBREVIATIONS XIX -- INTRODUCTION 1 -- part One -- 1. THE IDEAL COUNTRY LIFE -- The Development of Citrus Suburbs in Southern California 17 -- 2. THE "COLONIA COMPLEX" REVISITED -- Racial Hierarchies and Border Spaces in the Citrus Belt, 1917-1926 47 -- 3. FRIENDS OF THE MEXICANS? -- Mexican Immigration and the Politics of Social Reform 87 -- 4. JUST PUT ON THAT PADUA HILLS SMILE -- The Mexican Players and the Padua Hills Theatre, 1931-1974 121 -- Fart Two -- 5. CITRUS IN THE WAR YEARS -- Gender, Citizenship, and Labor, 1940-1964 157 -- 6. MEMORIES OF EL MONTE -- Dance Halls and Youth Culture in Greater Los Angeles, 1950-1974 189 -- 7. SOL Y SOMBRA -- The Limits of Intercultural Activism in Post-Citrus Greater -- Los Angeles 223 -- EPILOGUE 257 -- APPENDIX 263 -- NOTES 267 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 305 -- INDEX 323.
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Includes bibliographical references [305]-321) and index.
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Author
García, Matt.
Title
A world of its own [electronic resource] : race, labor, and citrus in the making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 / Matt García.
Imprint
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.
Series
Studies in rural culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references [305]-321) and index.