A01=Laura Pulido
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activism
Author_Laura Pulido
Author_Laura R. Barraclough
Author_Wendy Cheng
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hidden history
little-known sites
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north la
obscure sites
san fernando valley
san gabriel valley
south la
southern california
tourist
tourist destination
travel guide
travel like a local
west coast vacation
Product details
- ISBN 9780520270817
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Laura Pulido is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Among her books is Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (UC Press). Laura Barraclough is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kalamazoo College and the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege. Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.
