Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles

Author/Contributor(s):	Acuna, Rodolfo F.
Publisher:	Verso
Date:	04/14/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political and social history, one of the foremost scholars of the Latino experience situates the US's largest immigrant community in a time of anti-immigrant fervor. Originally published in 1996, this edition analyses the rise and rule of LA's first-ever Mexican American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as the harsh pressures facing Chicanos in an increasingly unequal and gentrifying city.