“So we moved here to El Monte, and I remember all the neighbors were white,” recalled Gloria Arellanes […]
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(This post is part of our ongoing attempt to “live-blog” our participation in community-based history in South El […]
Hey, internet! We’re Daniel Morales and Nick Juravich, a pair of grad students in history from Columbia University […]
[Editor’s Note: Fifteen years ago, a a group of Jewish and Latino activists began efforts to renovate and […]
Revisiting a work of pop sociology is almost always a jarring experience. Frederick Lewis Allen’s early postmortem of […]
“I remember the Queen was beautiful, and the parade came down from Hicks Camp to Medina Court. The […]
The space occupied by Starlite Swap Meet, an ephemeral gathering place that facilitates sales and bartering in what […]
“I was born in San Gabriel. […] There was no hospital in El Monte at the time.”[1] Here […]