Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy

The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.

"When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights."-George J. Sánchez

The vision for America's cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts-the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities-built up over generations...