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Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine . By John H. M. Laslett

2016; Oxford University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/whq/whw162

1939-8603

Michael Nevin Willard,

Race, History, and American Society

Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine . By John H. M. Laslett. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xi + 219 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper; e-book.) The cover of Shameful Victory features an architectural drawing of the site plan for Dodger stadium above a photograph of four Los Angeles county Sheriffs forcibly carrying Aurora Vargas down the stairs of the Arechiga family home on the day of their eviction from Chavez Ravine, May 8, 1959. Each image tells one history of Chavez Ravine and together they reprise another story told in a mural by LA artist Judith Baca, depicting Dodger stadium as a UFO invading as Mexican American, Chavez Ravine families look up in fear. Laslett includes Baca’s and other critical counter-stories in the book’s last chapter on the … mwillar{at}calstatela.edu