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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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Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world-a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley-and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies. --- Mexican Americans --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.) --- History. --- city life. --- city. --- l.a. --- latino. --- los angeles. --- metropolitan. --- mexican american. --- san Gabriel. --- san gabriel valley. --- suburb.
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