What follows is an excerpt from Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980, the new book by […]

“So we moved here to El Monte, and I remember all the neighbors were white,” recalled Gloria Arellanes […]

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Last Friday Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam announced at a press conference that officials believe they have found the […]

On May 2014 the self-identifying ghetto-metal band, Body Count, released their fifth album, Manslaughter, after an eight year […]

Standing on the western edge of the city of South El Monte, where the shoe factories and shipping […]