East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El Monte/ Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft
Part I. Origins and Departures
	1. The Tongva People/ Aurelie Roy
	2. Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the Landscape/ Maria John
	3. From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico Family/ Ryan Reft
	4. Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth-Century El Monte/ Karen S. Wilson and Daniel Lynch
Part II. Social and Political Movements
	5. Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy Movements/ Dan Cady
	6. Ricardo Flores Magón and the Anarchist Movement in El Monte/ Yesenia Barragan and Mark Bray
	7. Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933/ Melquiades Fernandez
	8. Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El Monte/ Rachel Grace Newman
	9. “City of Achievement”: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955–1976/ Nick Juravich
	10. ¡La Lucha Continua!: Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano Movement/ Juan Herrera
	11. Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano Movement/ Carribean Fragoza
	12. American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe Factory/ Adam Goodman
	13. Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El Monte since 1965/ Alex Sayf Cummings
Part III. Nature and the Built Environment
	14. Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio/ Daniel Morales
	15. Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los Angeles/ Daniel Medina
	16. From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte and Subsistence Homesteading/ Ryan Reft
	17. A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater San Gabriel Valley/ Andre Kobayashi Deckrow
	18. Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and Displacement/ David Reid
	19. Transportational El Monte: From the Red Car to the Freeway/ Ryan Reft
	20. The Starlite Swap Meet/ Jennifer Renteria
Part IV. Popular Culture
	21. El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion Farm/ Michael S. Weller
	22. Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the Air/ Jude P. Webre
	23. El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of the Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce/ Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis
	24. Punk and the Seamstress/ Apolonio Morales
	25. A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding Out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar Shack/ Stacy I. Macías
	26. All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty Shaking/ Carribean Fragoza
Part V. Literary Cartographies
	27. 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986/ Michael Jaime-Becerra
	28. Train versus Pedestrian on Valley Boulevard/ Alex Espinoza
	29 Epiphany Catholic Church/ Toni Margarita Plummer
	30. Rush Street/ Carribean Fragoza
	31. Durfee Avenue/ Salvador Plascencia
Epilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley/ Wendy Cheng
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index