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UnavailableRomeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

FromNew Books in History


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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

FromNew Books in History

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71 minutes
Released:
Jun 12, 2020
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Romeo Guzman's and his colleague's East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers University Press, 2020) is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history.
East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives-stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labour organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars.
David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of migration, urbanization, and social movements in the U.S., and specializes in Latina/o/x politics. Follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD.
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Released:
Jun 12, 2020
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