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A Companion to Los Angeles is a unique study of America's second largest city and consists of 25 original essays, which collectively assess the best and most important work to date on its complex history.
List of contents
List of Plates vii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xv
William Deverell and Greg Hise Part I The Long History of a Global City 1 1 The Border Crossed US 2
Matt Gainer 2 Born Global: From Pueblo to Statehood 20
Louise Pubols 3 Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the Progressive Era 40
Stephanie Lewthwaite 4 Between "White Spot" and "World City": Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism 56
Scott Kurashige 5 Contemporary Voice: Where You From? 72
Susan Straight Part II Social Flashpoints 93 6 Social Flashpoints 95
Eric Avila 7 The Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Its Strange Career 110
Victor Jew 8 Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods 129
George J. Sanchez 9 Gridlock of Rage: The Watts and Rodney King Riots 147
Scott Saul 10 Contemporary Voice: Here, Now, I 168
Angela Oh Part III Politics and Economies 175 11 Ab Urbe Condita: Regional Regimes since 13,000 Before Present 177
Philip J. Ethington 12 Crown Jewels: Infrastructure and Growth 216
Steven P. Erie and Scott MacKenzie 13 Consolidation, Fragmentation, and New Fiscal Federalism 233
Tom Hogen-Esch 14 Contemporary Voice: Contradictions, Coalitions, and Common Ground 250
Manuel Pastor Part IV Cultures and Communities 267 15 Cultures and Communities 269
Leo Braudy 16 "A Most Advantageous Spot on the Map": Promotion and Popular Culture 289
Anthea Hartig 17 Tijuana and the Borders of Race 313
Josh Kun 18 Counterculture 327
Dave McBride 19 Cinema and the Making of a Modern City 346
Edward Dimendberg 20 Contemporary Voice: Looking for God in the City of Angels 366
Matt Gainer Part V Landscapes and Place 391 21 Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Landscape and the Built Environment 393
Greg Hise 22 America's Playground: Recreation and Race 421
Lawrence Culver 23 Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation 438
David Sloane 24 Excerpts from the San Gabriel River Series 461
Robbert Flick 25 Contemporary Voice: Thickets of Diversity, Swaths of Emptyness 479
Christopher Hawthorne Index 494
About the author
William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Recent publications include
A Companion to California History (with David Igler, 2008),
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and
A Companion to the American West (2004). He has also co-editor of
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (with Greg Hise, 2005) and
Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (with Tom Sitton, 2001).
Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of American cities. Hise is the author of
Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of
Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and
Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).
