Untold Stories From Boyle Heights
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Untold Stories From Boyle Heights
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Author : School of Law & Government at, Class of 2011 Seniors Roosevelt High School
language : en
Publisher: School of Law and Government at Roosevelt High Sch
Release Date : 2011-05-31
Untold Stories From Boyle Heights written by School of Law & Government at, Class of 2011 Seniors Roosevelt High School and has been published by School of Law and Government at Roosevelt High Sch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
These untold stories were written by Class of 2011 Seniors from the School of Law and Government at Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, California. This year's class chose to tell the stories of their parents and family members, and in the process gave voice to those that often go unnoticed. These chapters were constructed by students who interviewed their subjects countless times in order to tell true stories of the past. Although each story possesses a unique and distinct voice, many of them share similar themes, involving birth and death, hardship and determination, home and dislocation, love and cruelty, family and independence. We hope that readers accept these stories without judgment and that the diversity and strength of the Boyle Heights community emerges from the pages. These stories are important and real. This is the young generation demanding that they be passed on. School of Law and Government is one of seven small schools on the campus of Roosevelt High School, in the Boyle Heights community of Los Angeles, California. Fifty-seven seniors from the Class of 2011 participated in the writing of this book.
State Street Orphans
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Author : Leopoldo Castro
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2017-03-23
State Street Orphans written by Leopoldo Castro and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
State Street Orphans is the untold story about a young Mexican male growing up in the barrios of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. These are factual accounts based on real occurrences that actually took place in the author's life. Relive the saga of this young Latino growing up in the tumultuous area controlled by the numerous territorial gangs. Follow him and his family as they try to stay ahead of the development of the now infamous freeway system of Los Angeles. Learn what a Mexican boy has to endure in order to survive the 1950's and 1960's in Boyle Heights. Journey with his family as they moved around through the countless barrios hidden within East Los Angeles. Explore the many experiences that a Mexican youth encounters growing up in a predominately Anglo-Jewish community. Visualize the dramatic changes of Boyle Heights from a Jewish community to a multitude of Mexican barrios. Wander through the thoughts of a young Latino as he deals with the many obstacles in his environment and social development. Adore the valleys and hilltops of puppy love which accompany the crushes constantly consuming this Chicano youth. Visualize the endless turmoil that his family experienced as a poor family where the patriarch was an itinerant migrant farm worker and alcoholic. Attempt to understand the constant battle his family endured with the Los Angeles County Social Services Department and the California State Welfare System. Travel with him as he journeys through the public educational system in the East Los Angeles area where he initially had to learn how to speak English then overcome a speech impediment which he still battles today. Be amused by the antics that surround the author and his older brother as they navigate the turbulent waters encompassing Boyle Heights. Capture the love and pride of belonging to State Street Playground while also being called a State Street Orphan. Notice the special bonds with the needs of belonging that parks and playgrounds provide for
The Tomorrow We See Today
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Author : School of Law and Government at, Class of 2012 Seniors Roosevelt High School
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-05-07
The Tomorrow We See Today written by School of Law and Government at, Class of 2012 Seniors Roosevelt High School and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
This book completes a trilogy that describes and imagines many aspects of the past, present, and future of the Boyle Heights community in Los Angeles, California. In June 2012, the senior class at the School of Law and Government at Roosevelt High School published Boyle Heights Through The Eyes Of Its Youth, a collection of essays that, taken together, create a portrait of Boyle Heights as it exists today. The following year, the seniors of the School of Law and Government took a more historical, and more personal, perspective by compiling tales of their of their parents' and other relatives' past in the in the collection Untold Stories From Boyle Heights. This year's contribution features the 2012 seniors' visions of their own futures, thereby completing the series and, in doing so, leaving a legacy for present and future generations wishing to understand and appreciate the vibrant and ever-changing community of Boyle Heights.
Boyle Heights
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Author : George J. Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Boyle Heights written by George J. Sánchez and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with History categories.
The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. “When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. Sánchez The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts—the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities—built up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval. Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.
Zev S Los Angeles
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Author : Zev Yaroslavsky
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2023-05-30
Zev S Los Angeles written by Zev Yaroslavsky and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A LA Times Bestseller “…[A] compelling history of our city’s last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. …” — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist’s passion with a seasoned politician’s skill to challenge the region’s power brokers. He fought the Los Angeles Police Department’s excessive force and political spying policies, led the effort to ban local taxes from funding the 1984 Olympics, teamed with President Clinton to avert a catastrophic county bankruptcy, helped develop L.A.’s modern transit system, won a bruising battle with real estate interests to save the Santa Monica Mountains from rapacious development, and was pivotal in the development of Walt Disney Concert Hall and the modernization of the iconic Hollywood Bowl. “I may be part of the establishment,” he said on the day he was first sworn into office, “but the establishment is not part of me.”
The Untold Story
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Author : Robert O'Driscoll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Untold Story written by Robert O'Driscoll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Canada categories.
Undocumented Lives
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Author : Ana Raquel Minian
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Undocumented Lives written by Ana Raquel Minian and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with History categories.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist Winner of the David Montgomery Award Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award Winner of the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Winner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize Winner of the Américo Paredes Prize “A deeply humane book.” —Mae Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects “Necessary and timely...A valuable text to consider alongside the current fight for DACA, the border concentration camps, and the unending rhetoric dehumanizing Mexican migrants.” —PopMatters “A deep dive into the history of Mexican migration to and from the United States.” —PRI’s The World In the 1970s, the Mexican government decided to tackle rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions of Mexican men crossed into the United States to find work. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. They periodically returned to Mexico, living their lives in both countries. After 1986, however, US authorities disrupted this back-and-forth movement by strengthening border controls. Many Mexican men chose to remain in the United States permanently for fear of not being able to come back north if they returned to Mexico. For them, the United States became a jaula de oro—a cage of gold. Undocumented Lives tells the story of Mexican migrants who were compelled to bring their families across the border and raise a generation of undocumented children.
A Murder In Hollywood
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Author : Casey Sherman
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2024-02-13
A Murder In Hollywood written by Casey Sherman and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with True Crime categories.
USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A wild ride beneath the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, proving once again that Casey Sherman is a master of the genre." —Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Dumb Money, Bringing Down the House, and The Accidental Billionaires The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all—a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventually, the physical and emotional abuse became too much to bear, and Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny—with disastrous consequences. The details of what happened that fateful night remain foggy, but it ended in a series of frantic phone calls and Stompanato dead on Lana's bedroom floor, with Cheryl claiming to have plunged a knife into his abdomen in an attempt to protect her mother. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie. New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal the dark underbelly of celebrity, rife with toxic masculinity and casual violence against women, and tells the story of Lana Turner and her daughter, who finally stood up to the abuse that plagued their family for years. A Murder in Hollywood transports us back to the golden age of film and illuminates one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime tales.
Kim Kardashian
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Author : Sean Smith
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-10-20
Kim Kardashian written by Sean Smith and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Kim Kardashian is a phenomenon. Despite her privileged upbringing in Beverly Hills, ten years ago Kim was just a modest stylist to stars like Paris Hilton and Brandy, making extra money selling her clothes on eBay. But a combination of hard work, an astute business brain, a hit TV series and a body to die for turned her life around. In this revealing unauthorized biography of Kim, bestselling author Sean Smith discovers a sweet, kind, and smart young woman whose life story reads like an X-rated version of Dynasty . . . an infamous murder case, elopement, a notorious sex tape, a seventy-two-day marriage, gender transition—and impossibly glamorous designer dresses. Finding love with one of the biggest stars on the planet, Kanye West, she has begun her own dynasty with her daughter, North, and the approaching birth of her son. Now, as Kim Kardashian West, she is the most photographed and talked-about celebrity of the past decade. Her following on Instagram alone exceeds 42 million, over 4 million more than the population of her home state of California. Kim Kardashian follows her extraordinary journey—from her childhood and amazing family to her turbulent love life and multi-million-dollar lifestyle. It is the ultimate insight into an icon of our times.
The Fight For Fair Housing
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Author : Gregory D. Squires
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-16
The Fight For Fair Housing written by Gregory D. Squires and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with Architecture categories.
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that "to continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and outlying areas". The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns that characterized most cities. The Fight for Fair Housing tells us what happened, why, and what remains to be done. Since the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the many forms of housing discrimination and segregation, and associated consequences, have been documented. At the same time, significant progress has been made in counteracting discrimination and promoting integration. Few suburbs today are all white; many people of color are moving to the suburbs; and some white families are moving back to the city. Unfortunately, discrimination and segregation persist. The Fight for Fair Housing brings together the nation’s leading fair housing activists and scholars (many of whom are in both camps) to tell the stories that led to the passage of the Fair Housing Act, its consequences, and the implications of the act going forward. Including an afterword by Walter Mondale, this book is intended for everyone concerned with the future of our cities and equal access for all persons to housing and related opportunities.