A People's Guide to Los Angeles

A People's Guide to Los Angeles
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780520953345
ISBN-13 : 0520953347
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Book Synopsis A People's Guide to Los Angeles by : Laura Pulido

Download or read book A People's Guide to Los Angeles written by Laura Pulido and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley—this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.


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