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ISBN-10: 1978805489
ISBN-13: 9781978805484
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 02/14/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.80" H

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

Editor: Carribean Fragoza
Editor: Alex Sayf Cummings
Editor: Ryan Reft

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Price: $43.95

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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, 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, labor 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.

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"Richly layered and movingly felt, East of East is a collaborative history of a seemingly ordinary place revealed as a crossroads of the local and the global. A remarkable interleaving of scholarship and the intimacy of memory."–D.J. Waldie "author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir"
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ISBN-10: 1978805489
ISBN-13: 9781978805484
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 02/14/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.80" H
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