Chicano History: Transcending Cultural Models
01 Nov 1994-Pacific Historical Review (University of California Press Journals)-Vol. 63, Iss: 4, pp 469-497
TL;DR: The history of the Mexican Barrio of Los Angeles has been studied extensively in the past twenty years as mentioned in this paper. But it has not yet been considered in the context of Chicano historiography.
Abstract: 1. Chicano historiography made impressive strides over the past twenty years. See, among others, the following studies: Pedro Castillo, "The Making of a Mexican Barrio: Los Angeles, 1890-1920" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979); Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society (Cambridge, Mass., 1979); Juan G6mez-Quifiones, "The Origins and Development of the Mexican Working Class in the United States: Laborers and Artisans North of the Rio Bravo, 1600-1900," in Elsa C. Frost, ed., El trabajo y los trabajadomes en la historia de Mixico (Tucson, 1979), 463-505; Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History (Berkeley, 1979); Mario Garcia, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans ofEl Paso, 1880-1920 (New Haven, 1981) and Garcia, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (New Haven, 1989); Robert J. Rosenbaum, Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest (Austin, 1981); Rodolfo Acufia, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2nd ed., New York, 1981); Ricardo Romo, East Los Angeles: A History of a Barrio (Austin, 1983); Richard Griswold del Castillo, La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present (Notre Dame, 1984); Antonio Rios-Bustamante, Los Angeles: Pueblo and Region (Los Angeles, 1985); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (Austin, 1987); Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (Albuquerque, 1987). See also Carlos Cort6s, "Mexicans," in Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, and Oscar Handlin, eds., Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, Mass., 1980), 699; Arnoldo De Le6n, The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 (Albuquerque, 1982); Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California (San Francisco, 1984); John R. Chivez, The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest (Albuquerque, 1984); Arnoldo De Le6n and Kenneth L. Stewart, Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850-1900 (Albuquerque, 1989); Thomas E. Sheridan, Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (Tucson, 1986).
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