Stephanie Lewthwaite. Race, Place and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles. A Transnational Perspective, 1890–1940.

Stephanie Lewthwaite’s Race, Place and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles is an interesting and thought provoking book focusing on the growth of the Mexican community within Los Angeles from 1890 to 1940. Thoroughly researched, the book is enhanced with interesting demographical and historical informati...

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Gepubliceerd in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Hoofdauteur: Papagianni, Chrysavgi
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: European journal of American studies 2022
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:Stephanie Lewthwaite’s Race, Place and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles is an interesting and thought provoking book focusing on the growth of the Mexican community within Los Angeles from 1890 to 1940. Thoroughly researched, the book is enhanced with interesting demographical and historical information that manage to call into question previous “assumptions about the linearity of reform and Americanization” (5). The problematization of such assumptions represents most definitely an important c...