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Podcast: New Books in Latino Studies
Episode: Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Description: Romeo Guzman's and his colleague's East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers University Press, 2020) is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history.East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives-stories that long survived...