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BIBLIOGRAPHY A list of references that have been helpful to the Boyle Heights team.
Books Acuna, Rodolfo. A Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 1984. Acuna, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1981. Bartlett, Dana. The Better City. Los Angeles, CA: Neuner Co. Press, 1907. Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Chang, Edward T., and Russel C. Leong. Los Angeles-Struggles toward Multiethnic Community: Asian, African American, and Latino Perspectives. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1994. Chavez, John R. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968-1993. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Cheng, Lucie and Edna Bonacich. Labor Immigration Under Capitalism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984. Cornford, Daniel, ed. Working People of California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. Cuff, Dana. The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 2000. Escobar, Edward J. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angles Police Department, 1900-1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Foster, Sesshu. City Terrace Field Manual. New York, NY: Kaya Production, 1996. Fremon, Celeste. Father Greg and the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Greg Boyle and his Work with the Latino Gangs of East L.A. New York, NY: Hyperion, 1995. Gebhard, David and Harriette Von Breton. L.A. in the Thirties, 1931-1941. Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith, 1975. Gomez-Quinones, Juan. Chicano Politics, 1940-1990. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. 5th and Grande Vista: Poems, 1960-1973. New York, NY: Coleccion Mensaje, 1973. Griswold del Castillo, Richard. The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. Gutierrez, David. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. Himes, Chester. If He Hollers, Let Him Go. New York, NY: Thunder Mountain Press, 1986. Hing, Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Baltimore, MD and London, England: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Hise, Greg and William Deverell. Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. Hoffman, Abraham. Unwanted Mexican-Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressure, 1929-1939. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1981. Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: The Modern Library ed., 1993. Klein, Norman M., and Martin J. Schiesl, eds. 20th Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion, and Social Conflict. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1990. Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press, 1990. Lord, David. Joey. New York, NY: EP Dutton & Co., Inc., 1949. Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. McWilliams, Carey. Southern California: An Island on the Land. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, 1999. Marchand, B. The Emergence of Los Angeles: Population and Housing in the City of Dreams, 1940-1870. London, England: Pion Limited, 1986. Mason, William M. and Dr. John A. McKinstry. The Japanese of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Contribution No.1, 1969. Matsumoto, Valerie, and Blake Allmendinger, eds. 1999. Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1984. Mohoff, George W. and Jack P. Valov. A Stroll Through Russiantown. Los Angeles, CA: G.W. Mohoff and P. Valov, 1996. Monroy, Douglas. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Morin, Raul. Among the Valiant. Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Company, 1963. Moore, Joan W. Going Down to the Barrio: Homeboys and Homegirls in Change. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1991. Nava, Julian. Julian Nava: My Mexican-American Journey. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 2002. Pardo, Mary S. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997. Post, Robert C. Street Railways and the Growth of Los Angeles. San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1989. Reyes, David and Tom Waldman. Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Rios-Bustamante, Antonin and Pedro Castillo. An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles: 1781-1985. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 1984. Rochlin, Harriet. Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. Rodriguez, Luis. Republic of East L.A.: Stories. New York, NY: Rayo, 2002. Rolle, Andrew. Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future. Sacramento, CA: MTL, Inc., 1995. Romo, Ricardo. East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio. Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1983. Rosaldo, Renato. Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1989. Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women/Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Saito, Leland. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York, NY and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993. Scott, Allen J. and Edward W. Soja. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1990. Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528 to 1990. New York, NY: Norton and Co., Inc., 1998. Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press, 1977. Verge, Arthur C. Paradise Transformed: Los Angeles during the Second World War. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1993. Villa, Raul. Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture. Austin, TX: University of Texas, 2000. Vorspan, Max and Lloyd P. Gartner. History of the Jews in Los Angeles. San Marino, CA: Hungtington Library, 1970. Waldinger, Roger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds. Ethnic Los Angeles. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. Workman, Boyle. The City that Grew. Los Angeles, CA: Southland Publishing Company, 1936. Young, Pauline. The Pilgrims of Russian Town. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1932. Yu, David.
Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans
of California, 1924-49. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 2000.
Articles Bunche, Lonnie G. III. A Past Not Necessarily Prologue: The Afro-American in Los Angeles Since 1900, in Norman M. Klein and Martin J. Schiels eds. 20th Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion, and Social Conflict. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1990. Burt, Kenneth C. "Latino Empowerment in Los Angeles: Postwar Dreams and Cold War Fears, 1948-1952." Labor's Heritage (Summer 1996).
Crawford, Margaret and ADOBE LA. Mi Casa es Su Casa. Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture 24 (1994).
Diaz, David R. "La Vida Libre/The Free Life: The Street Culture of East Los Angeles." Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design 8:3 (Spring 1993).
Engh, Michael S.J. Mary Julia Workman, the Catholic Conscience of Los Angeles. California History: The Magazine of the California Historical Society (Spring 1993).
Flemings, Maria. "A Garden of Honor: Latino students in East L.A. plant a tribute to Japanese Americans." Teaching Tolerance (Spring 1998).
Friedman, Ralph. "Boyle Heights: An Example of Democratic Progress." Frontier (March 1955).
Griffith, Beatrice. "Viva RoybalViva America." Common Ground (1949).
Guevara, Ruben. "The View from the Sixth Street Bridge: The History of Chicano Rock," in David Marsh, et. al. eds. The First Rock and Roll Confidential Report: Inside the Real World of Rock & Roll. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Hoffman, Abe. Jewish Student Militancy in the Great Depression: The Roosevelt High School Blowouts of 1931. Branding Iron 121 (March 1976).
Kaplan, Sam. "The Sidewalks of Life in Boyle Heights." Los Angeles Times (24 April 1980).
Mikesell, Stephen D. The Los Angeles River Bridges: A Study in the Bridge as a Civic Monument. Southern California Quarterly 68 (Winter 1986).
Moore, Deborah Dash and Dan Gebler. The Taam of Tourism. Pacific Historical Review (1999).
Reeves, Richard. "A Reporter at Large: Boyle Heights and Beyond." New Yorker Magazine (14 September 1981).
Rojas, James T. "The Enacted Environment of East Los Angeles." Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design 8:3 (Spring 1993).
Sahagun, Louis. Boyle Heights Problems, Pride and Promise. Los Angeles Times (31 July 1983).
Sanchez, George. Working at the Crossroads: American Studies for the 21st Century: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 9, 2001. American Quarterly 55 (March 2002).
Shorr, Howard. "The Boyle Heights Project: Linking Students with their Community." History Teacher (1985).
Spaulding,
Sophie. The Myth of the Classic Slum: Contradictory Perceptions
of Boyle Heights Flats, 1900-1991. Journal of Architectural Education
45/2 (February 1992).
Reports Boyle Heights Research Team. Working Papers on Asian American Studies, No. 4: Boyle Heights Study, 1973-4. Los Angeles, CA: Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, 1975.
Los Angeles
County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro Red Line East Side
Extension, "Cultural Needs Assessment." February 1995.
Dissertations, Theses, Unpublished Papers Elliott-Scheinberg, Wendy. Boyle Heights: Jewish Ambiance in a Multicultural Neighborhood." Ph.D. diss., Claremont Graduate University, 2001.
Estrada, Gilbert. "How the East Was Lost: Fragmentation, Displacement, and the East Los Angeles Freeway System, 1947-1972." Masters thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2002.
Kim, Young Il. A Study of Some Changes in Los Angeles Japanese Settlement Since 1950 with an Analysis of Selected Communities. Masters thesis, Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences, 1963.
Mahakian, Charles. History of the Armenians in California. Master's thesis, University of California, 1935.
Moreno, Alexis. "African Americans in Boyle Heights." Research paper, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, 1999.
Radell, David Richard. "Mom 'n Pop Grocery Stores in the Boyle Heights Section of Los Angeles, California." Master's thesis, Los Angeles State College, 1961.
Rojas, James Thomas. The Enacted Environment: The Creation of 'Place' by Mexican and Mexican Americans in East Los Angeles. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991.
Sanchez-Tranquilino, Marcos. Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Chicano Murals and Barrio Calligraphy as Systems of Significance at Estrada Courts, 1972-1978. Masters thesis, UCLA, 1991.
Shuldiner, David Philip. Of Moses and Marx: Folk Ideology Within the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States. Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1984.
Underwood, Katherine. Process and Politics: Multiracial Electoral Coalition Building and Representation in Los Angeles' Ninth District, 1949-1962. Ph.D. diss., UC San Diego, 1992.
Uono, Koyoshi. The Factors Affecting the Geographical Aggregation and Dispersion of the Japanese Residences in the City of Los Angeles. Masters thesis, UCLA, 1927.
Videos
Meet Me at Brooklyn and Soto: Celebrating the Jewish Community of East Los Angeles. Produced and directed by Ellie Kahn and the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, 1996. Mixed Memories: Forget Me Not. Produced by the Japanese American National Museum Youth Media Arts Project, 1999. A Symbol of Heart: The Official Documentary of the East L.A. Classic, Vol. 1. Carmona Productions, LLC, 2001.
Selected
Titles for (K-12) Educators and Students Compiled
by Albert Johnson, Jr.,
Please note: Call numbers apply to resources available at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Childrens Titles (Grades 4-6)
Dooley, Norah.
Everybody Cooks Rice; Illustrations by Peter J. Thornton. Minneapolis,
MN:
Hallinan, P.K. A Rainbow of Friends. Nashville, TN: Ideals Children's Books, 1997. [xz]
Jaskol, Julie
and Lewis, Bria. City of Angeles: in and around Los Angeles; Illustrated
Johnston,
Tony. Any Small Goodness: a Novel of the Barrio; Illustrated by
Raul Colon.
Noguchi, Rick. Flowers from Mariko; Illustrated by Michelle Reiko Kumata. New York, NY: Lee & Low Books Inc., 2001. [xz 2001]
Singelis, Theodore M. Teaching about Culture, Ethnicity, & Diversity: Exercises and Planned Activities. (Teacher's aid) Stein, R.
Conrad. Los Angeles (Cities of the World). New York, NY: Children's
Press, 2001.
Wing, Natasha. Jalapeno Bagels; Illustrated by Robert Casilla. New York, NY :Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996. [xz 1996]
Spanish Language Children's Titles Cohen, Barbara. Molly y Los Perergrinos; Illustrado por Michael J. Deraney; traducido por Maria A. Fiol. New York, NY: Lectorum Publications, 1995. [Sx Ed.a 1995]
Grunsell, Angela. Hablemos del Racismo (Let's Talk About Racism); Traducido por Teresa Mlawer. New York, NY: Lectorum Publications, 1993. [Sx 323.1 G891 1993]
Kissinger,
Katie. Todos Los Colores De Nuestra Piel (All the colors we are).
St. Paul, Minn.: Redleaf Press; Beltsville, MD: Distributed by Gryphon
House, 1994.
Spier, Peter. Gente (People). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Lumen, 1999. [Sx 572 S755 1999] folio
Velthuijs, Max. Sapo y el Forastero (Frog and the Stranger). Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones Ekare, 1994. [ Sxz 1994]
Yashima, Taro. Niño Cuervo ( Crow Boy); Traducido por Maria A. Fiol. New York, NY: Lectorum Publications, 1996. [S xz Ed.a 1996]
Titles for Middle & High School Students
Dunitz, Robin. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, 1998. [ 756.4 D918 1998]
Franklin, Paula A. Melting Pot or Not: Debating Cultural Identity. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995. [301.45 F8327]
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar. Toronto and New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1974, c1973. [940.547273 H843]
Komatsu, Kimberly, and Kaleigh Komatsu. In America's Shadow. Los Angeles, CA: Thomas George Books, 2002.
Ottesen, Carol Clark. L.A. Stories: The Voices of Cultural Diversity. Lanham, MD.: University Press of America, 1999. [ 810.8 L1115-1]
Pitt, Leonard
and Dale. Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County.
Tatlock, Ann. All the Way Home. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany Books, 2002. Whitehead, Fred. ed. Culture Wars: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1994. [320.1 c9685]
Videos The Bracelet. Produced by UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Japanese American National Museum in association with Alhambra School District, 2000.
Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Produced by National Latino Communications Center and Galán Productions, Inc., in cooperation with KCET, Los Angeles, 1996. Cultural Diversity: Meeting the Challenge. [VID 325.259 C9865 1990] Dear Miss Breed. Produced by UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Japanese American National Museum in association with Alhambra School District, 2000.
Interactions. Produced by UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Japanese American National Museum in association with Alhambra School District, 2000.
Meet Me at Brooklyn and Soto: Celebrating the Jewish Community of East Los Angeles. Produced and directed by Ellie Kahn and the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, 1996.
Websites Community and Neighborhood Information on the Internet: some URL's of interest: Boyle Heights
1 Boyle Heights
2 Echo Park Silver Lake Eagle Rock Los Angeles
Harbor Los Angeles
Information & Places
Oral History Projects American
Folklife Center Cultural
Arts Resources for Teacher and Students Indivisible
Stories of an American Community My History
is American's Hisory Resource Guide Tips for
Interviewers Transplants:
Stories of individuals who migrated to Central Florida Student Projects:
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