Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine

Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine / John H.M. Laslett.

"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodger Stadium and t...

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Main Author: Laslett, John H. M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1900-1999
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Land use > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Hispanic American neighborhoods > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Public housing > California > Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Hispanic American neighborhoods
Land use
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans > Social conditions
Politics and government
Public housing
Race relations
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History > 20th century.
California > Los Angeles
California > Los Angeles > Chávez Ravine
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Building a unique barrio
  • Mexicans on the hilltop : gaining a foothold, 1830-1929
  • Prelude to a crisis : race, patriotism, and public housing in depression and war, 1929-1949
  • Public housing, evictions, and the impact of the Red Scare
  • Struggling to keep our homes : the evictions crisis, 1950-1952
  • Political consequences : the defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953
  • Building Dodger Stadium
  • L.A. pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959
  • Dodger success and the history of minority displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1990
  • Chavez Ravine in the light of subsequent history
  • Have LA's urban renewal policies been adequately reformed?
  • Chavez Ravine's cultural legacy.

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