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Shameful Victory : The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816532353
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shameful VictoryDDC classification:
  • 979.4/94
LOC classification:
  • F869
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I. Building a Unique Barrio -- 1. Mexicans on the Hilltop: Gaining a Foothold, 1830-1929 -- 2. Prelude to a Crisis: Race, Patriotism, and Public Housing in Depression and War, 1929-1949 -- Part II. Public Housing, Evictions, and the Impact of the Red Scare -- 3. "Struggling to Keep Our Homes": The Evictions Crisis, 1950-1952 -- 4. Political Consequences: The Defeat of Public Housing and the Triumph of Corporate Modernism, 1950-1953 -- Part III. Building Dodger Stadium -- 5. L.A. Pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959 -- 6. Dodger Success and the History of Minority Displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1970 -- Part IV. Chavez Ravine in the Light of Subsequent History -- 7. Have L.A.'s Urban Renewal Policies Been Successfully Reformed? -- 8. Chavez Ravine's Cultural Legacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I. Building a Unique Barrio -- 1. Mexicans on the Hilltop: Gaining a Foothold, 1830-1929 -- 2. Prelude to a Crisis: Race, Patriotism, and Public Housing in Depression and War, 1929-1949 -- Part II. Public Housing, Evictions, and the Impact of the Red Scare -- 3. "Struggling to Keep Our Homes": The Evictions Crisis, 1950-1952 -- 4. Political Consequences: The Defeat of Public Housing and the Triumph of Corporate Modernism, 1950-1953 -- Part III. Building Dodger Stadium -- 5. L.A. Pursues the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1957-1959 -- 6. Dodger Success and the History of Minority Displacement in Los Angeles, 1870-1970 -- Part IV. Chavez Ravine in the Light of Subsequent History -- 7. Have L.A.'s Urban Renewal Policies Been Successfully Reformed? -- 8. Chavez Ravine's Cultural Legacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

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