"Our Children Get So Different Here": Film, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Process of Cultural Syncretization in Mexican Los Angeles, 1900-1935.

Monroy, Douglas

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ERIC Number: EJ426262

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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"Our Children Get So Different Here": Film, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Process of Cultural Syncretization in Mexican Los Angeles, 1900-1935.

Monroy, Douglas

Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v19 n1 p79-108 Spr 1988-90

Draws on interviews of the 1920s and 1930s with Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles to illustrate the intergenerational conflicts that arose from immigrant children's acceptance of American values encountered in school and via the popular culture of films and fashion. Contains 27 references. (SV)

Descriptors: Acculturation, Culture Conflict, Family School Relationship, Hispanic American Culture, Immigrants, Interviews, Mexican American History, Mexican Americans, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Popular Culture, Primary Sources, Social Values, Traditionalism

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)

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