George J. Sánchez is the author of the award-winning book Becoming Mexican American and is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. He is the 2020-2021 President of the Organization for American Historians.
List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America
Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles
Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid
Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods
Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment
Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside
Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism
Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio
Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary
Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights
Time Line
Mayor and City Council Lists
Notes
Bibliography
Index