People''s Guide to Los Angeles

Zusatztext "A People's Guide is much more than a guidebook! it is a unique and much-needed people's history of Los Angeles; an historical document to resist the erasures! and to capture stories! struggles (both historical and ongoing)! successes and defeats! that may otherwise be lost or remain inaccessible to those not intimately familiar with and embedded in the region." Informationen zum Autor Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair and Professor in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon.  Among her books is Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles .  Laura Barraclough is Professor of American Studies at Yale University and the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege . Wendy Cheng is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies at Scripps College.   Klappentext “Forget the stars’ map of Hollywood: this is the real trip through an L.A. history of militant strikers, civil rights activists, and unforgettable feminists. A tour de force of imagination and memory.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles " A People’s Guide brings the reader to the Los Angeles I know and love. The amazingly diverse, vibrant, gritty LA filled with history and struggle. Finally, here’s a guidebook that takes visitors to the places and people that make me proud to call Los Angeles my home.” —Madeline Janis, Executive Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) Zusammenfassung A guide to Los Angeles that offers an assortment of alternatives to LA'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. It shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis 97393505 ...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Barraclough, Laura R Barraclough, Laura R. Barraclough, Barraclough Laura R., Wendy Cheng, Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough Pulido, Laura/ Barraclough Pulido, Pulido Laura
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2012
• EAN: 9780520270817
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27081-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: People's Guide; A People's Guide Series; People's Guide; A People's Guide Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Travel > Illustrated books; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, TRAVEL / Pictorials, California, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Places and peoples: general and pictorial works