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Mexican-American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968

With Mexican-American Mojo, Anthony Macias addresses an often overlooked period of Mexican-American cultural history: namely, the generation that came of age in Los Angeles during the New Deal years of the mid-1930s and culminated with the many currents that merged in the late 1960s to form the Chicano/a Movement. Employing the discerning eye of the historian, Macias rejects the temptation to over-generalize or to identify some essentialist elements of his topic. But through his regionalist and generational approach, he nonetheless provides cogent arguments and a highly readable narrative. “During this period,” the author forthrightly concludes, “Mexican-Americans rejected second-class citizenship, transformed Los Angeles, and enriched American culture” (2).