A People's Guide to Los Angeles

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.

Author: Laura Pulido, Laura R. Barraclough, Wendy Cheng
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/23/2012
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.28h x 5.95w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780520270817
ISBN10: 0520270819
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States | West | General
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | Social History

About the Author
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.