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The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of elements, including race, class, gender, identity, food, and space.
List of contents
Foreword
Yolanda T. Moses
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Melissa King with Jenny Banh
Chapter 1 Hauntings of a Different Kind: Militarized Spaces and Memories of Containment
Jocelyn Pacleb
Chapter 2 Bicycle Anthropology of Los Angeles
Adonia Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre
Chapter 3 The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Post-Modern Global City
Nathalie Boucher
Chapter 4 Embodying Democratic Spaces: Community Organizer Alternative Narratives That Challenge the Mainstream Negative Stigma of South Los Angeles
George Villanueva
Chapter 5 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest
Kyeyoung Park
Chapter 6 Memory: The Angeleno Pharmakon
Charles Joseph
Chapter 7 Multiple Ways of Knowing: Layers of History on The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Andrea Lepage
Chapter 8 Making Space: Ethnic Towns and the Racing of Public Space in Los Angeles
Beth F. Baker and ChorSwang Ngin
Chapter 9 Agro-Ethnic Landscapes of Los Angeles
Natale Zappia
Chapter 10 A Conversation with Diego Vigil a Los Angeles Pioneer Anthropologist: An Anthropologist
Past, Present, and Future
Jenny Banh
Conclusion
Jenny Banh
About the author
Jenny Banh is assistant professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at California State University, Fresno.
Melissa King is faculty chair of the anthropology department at San Bernardino Valley College.
Summary
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of elements, including race, class, gender, identity, food, and space.
