A people's guide to Los Angeles / Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, Wendy Cheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulido, Laura.

Contributor:

Barraclough, Laura R.

Cheng, Wendy, 1977-

Series:

A People's Guide Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Guidebooks.

Cities and towns.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Guidebooks.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

An Introduction to A People's Guide to Los Angeles

1. NORTH LOS ANGELES

2. THE GREATER EASTSIDE AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

3. SOUTH LOS ANGELES

4. THE HARBOR AND SOUTH BAY

5. THE WESTSIDE

6. THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND NORTH LOS ANGELES COUNTY

7. THEMATIC TOURS

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613691828

9781280781438

1280781432

9780520953345

0520953347

OCLC:

795695217