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Erased: The Untold Story of Mexican Workers in Hollywood
Maxwell007
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@Latino Ground Mexican workers built Hollywood. Every soundstage. Every backlot. Every studio. Then Hollywood spent a century erasing them from the story. 1910s and 1920s — the film industry was being born from the California dirt. Paramount. Warner Brothers. MGM. Universal. They needed to be built fast. So they hired Mexican carpenters, masons, and laborers to raise them from the ground up. Mexican craftsmen built the fake Western towns. The elaborate sets. The movie magic. Then the cameras started rolling. And Mexicans vanished from the screen. Hollywood made hundreds of Westerns — set in the American West. The land Mexicans
