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City of Industry : genealogies of power in Southern California / Victor Valle.
LIBRA HV8148.C58 V35 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valle, Victor M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--California--City of Industry.
- Police.
- City of Industry (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- City of Industry (Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- California--City of Industry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, "The gritty crossroads of the global trade revolution that is transforming Southern California factories into warehouses, and adjacent working class communities into economic and environmental sacrifice zones choking on cheap goods and carcinogenic diesel exhaust."
- In sweeping narrative style supported by archival documentation, Valle vividly explores the villains and victims of corruption in City of Industry.
- Contents:
- 1 His Theater of Shame 15
- 2 A Legacy of Debt, Rails, and Nooses 28
- 3 In the School of Power 53
- 4 Graduation Day 67
- 5 "We Don't Like the Dirty Deal" 81
- 6 Triangulating the Throne 103
- 7 Sowing a Field, Climbing a Tree 113
- 8 Scaring the Pests Away 131
- 9 The Other Chinatowns 145
- 10 Jim's Busy Period 163
- 11 Assembling Jim's Portrait 179
- 12 Jim's Hot Vegas Tip 190
- 13 A Punishing Gaze 204
- 14 Performing His Whiteness 215
- 15 Burying the Body 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813545738
- 0813545730
- OCLC:
- 276818637
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