Employment in Metropolitan Areas
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author : Eric Dinerstein
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
Approach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.
Mexican Americans in Los Angeles
Author : Alex Moreno Areyan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738580067
Book Description
Mexican Americans established and nurtured the foundation, fiber, and fabric of Los Angeles since the first pobladores arrived in 1781. Pride in family, work, community, and religion coalesces into their legacy from East Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley to the port areas of Wilmington and San Pedro. Men and women of Mexican heritage comprised 47 percent of Los Angeles County's Latino population in the 21st century. The modern Mexican American saga is embodied in the success of Congressman Edward Roybal, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal Allard, dynamic civic leader Dionicio Morales, and Los Angeles County supervisor Gloria Molina. Labor leader Cesar Chavez instilled passion and hope, while prizefighters Art Aragon, Paul Gonzalez, and Oscar De La Hoya and actors Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Ricardo Montalban, and Edward James Olmos provided inspiration. The city's first Mexican American mayor in more than a century, Antonio Villaraigosa, was elected in 2005. This book is a distillation of a proud people's contributions to, and achievements in, a great city.
Latinos in Pasadena
Author : Roberta H. MartÃnez
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738569550
Book Description
Histories of Pasadena are rich in details about important citizens, time-honored traditions, and storied enclaves such as Millionaires Row and Lamanda Park. But the legacies of Mexican Americans and other Latino men and women who often worked for Pasadena's rich and famous have been sparsely preserved through the generations--even though these citizens often made remarkable community contributions and lived in close proximity to their employers. A fuller story of the Pasadena area can be provided from these vintage images and the accompanying information culled from anecdotes, master's theses, newspaper articles, formal and informal oral histories, and the Ethnic History Research Project compiled for the City of Pasadena in 1995. Among the stories told is that of Antonio F. Coronel, a one-time Mexican Army officer who served as California state treasurer from 1866 to 1870 and whose image graced the 1904 Tournament of Roses program.
Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles
Author : Francisco E. Balderrama
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780738581804
Book Description
Images of Baseball: Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles celebrates the flourishing culture of the great pastime in East Los Angeles and other communities where a strong sense of Mexican identity and pride was fostered in a sporting atmosphere of both fierce athleticism and social celebration. From 1900, with the establishment of the Mexican immigrant community, to the rise of Fernandomania in the 1980s, baseball diamonds in greater Los Angeles were both proving grounds for youth as they entered their educations and careers, and the foundation for the talented Forty-Sixty Club, comprised of players of at least 40, and often over 60, years of age. These evocative photographs look back on the great Mexican American teams and players of the 20th century, including the famous Chorizeros--the proclaimed "Yankees of East L.A."
Mexican Americans in Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach
Author : Alex Moreno Areyan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738546995
Book Description
The century-old presence of Mexican Americans in Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach is an important, colorful part of the history of Los Angeles County's South Bay region. This evocative pictorial history documents the ways in which this group left significant marks on the economic, agricultural, academic, religious, professional, and governmental fabric of both communities. World War II heroes, star athletes, lawyers, professors, teachers, city councilmen, a judge, an astrophysicist, and many other professionals have come from this heritage. The first known Mexican American in Redondo Beach was Mauro Gonzales, who arrived in 1900 to unload ships at the city's old wooden pier. He was followed in 1910 by Domingo Moreno, who fostered 12 children, and Mauricio Colin, who had 13, after they escaped the Mexican Revolution. They initiated a large and vibrant Mexican American community, one that has virtually been ignored by conventional histories.
Piloto
Author : Henry Cervantes
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
The autobiography of a migrant field worker who over-came poverty and prejudice to become a Lt. Col. in the USAF and, more importantly, one of only a handful of Mexican-Americans to break into the tight fraternity of Caucasian military pilots assigned to the Strategic Air Command's elite test flight programs.
