Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods

Deverell, William (editor) / Hise, Greg (editor) / Sanchez, George J. (author)

A Companion to Los Angeles ; 129-146

Blackwell Companions to American History

2010-02-05

18 pages

9781444390964 , 9781405171274

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390964.ch8

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

disposable people and expendable neighborhoods , growing economic crisis ‐ the Great Depression with limited local resources , basic contours of Mexican repatriation campaign ‐ County of Los Angeles, known among Chicano historians , Mexican repatriation ‐ by county welfare officials and collective sense of racial urban geography , 1931, tumultuous years ‐ in history of city of Los Angeles , Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) , Frank Shaw's efforts, organized repatriation campaign in US history ‐ targeting Mexican immigrants in city , New Deal citizenship enactment ‐ in Los Angeles , legality of transporting indigents ‐ outside region at county's expense , fluid nature of ideologies and actions ‐ shaping racial hierarchy in nation's multiracial past