The LA Times has an in-depth piece on the current struggles and conflicts in Boyle Heights, where local activists are demanding galleries leave the neighborhood amid fears of gentrification.  “In many ways, that Chicano Civil Rights movement looked to Boyle Heights as ‘our community, our home.’ And that’s changing now,†says Eric Avila, a professor of history, Chicano studies and urban planning at UCLA. “If you think about it, the struggle for Mexican American civil rights has always been strongly connected to this idea of turf, territory … Mexican American history is about displacement and dislocation and conquest.â€
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