A Companion to Los Angeles
Published on 17. July 2010
536 pages
978-1-4443-9094-0 (ISBN)
Description
This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers andscholars who present an expert assessment of the best and mostimportant work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles.
* The first Companion providing a historical survey of LosAngeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes andinnovative scholarship
* Features essays from a range of disciplines, including history,political science, cultural studies, and geography
* Photo essays and 'contemporary voice' sectionscombine with traditional historiographic essays to provide amulti-dimensional view of this vibrant and diverse city
* Essays cover the key topics in the field within a thematicstructure, including demography, social unrest, politics, popularculture, architecture, and urban studies
Reviews / Votes
"Every Los Angeles-based history, political science, andethnic or urban studies instructor has been waiting for thisanthology. ...The book's overarching aims serve torevisit and reenvision L.A.'s early history and prehistory,uncover long-term patterns obscured by earlier episodic treatments,and influence the shaping of the city's future." (Western Historical Quarterly, 2012) "Overall, this is a fascinating fractured account of varioustime periods, events, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and urbansprawl in a city that has become synonymous with the AmericanDream." (Philosophy & Religion, November 2010) "In times past, books of this sort presented accepted interpretations arranged according to the alphabet. A Companion to Los Angeles, by contrast, presents cutting edge interpretations, systematically developed by leading scholars in the field. This valuable resource is not just a book about history. It is history itself, hence a significant step forward in the journey to identity by the City of Angels." Kevin Starr, University of Southern CaliforniaMore details
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Persons
William Deverell is Professor of History at theUniversity of Southern California and Director of theHuntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Recentpublications include A Companion to California History (withDavid Igler, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angelesand the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companionto the American West (2004). He has also co-editor ofLand of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan LosAngeles (with Greg Hise, 2005) and Metropolis in the Making:Los Angeles in the 1920s (with Tom Sitton, 2001).
Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University ofNevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, andplanning of American cities. Hise is the author of Magnetic LosAngeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997),co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Planfor the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land ofSunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles(2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).
Content
List of Plates vii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xv
William Deverell and Greg Hise
Part I The Long History of a Global City 1
1 The Border Crossed US 2
Matt Gainer
2 Born Global: From Pueblo to Statehood 20
Louise Pubols
3 Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the Progressive Era 40
Stephanie Lewthwaite
4 Between "White Spot" and "World City":Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism 56
Scott Kurashige
5 Contemporary Voice: Where You From? 72
Susan Straight
Part II Social Flashpoints 93
6 Social Flashpoints 95
Eric Avila
7 The Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Its Strange Career110
Victor Jew
8 Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods 129
George J. Sanchez
9 Gridlock of Rage: The Watts and Rodney King Riots 147
Scott Saul
10 Contemporary Voice: Here, Now, I 168
Angela Oh
Part III Politics and Economies 175
11 Ab Urbe Condita: Regional Regimes since 13,000 Before Present177
Philip J. Ethington
12 Crown Jewels: Infrastructure and Growth 216
Steven P. Erie and Scott MacKenzie
13 Consolidation, Fragmentation, and New Fiscal Federalism233
Tom Hogen-Esch
14 Contemporary Voice: Contradictions, Coalitions, and CommonGround 250
Manuel Pastor
Part IV Cultures and Communities 267
15 Cultures and Communities 269
Leo Braudy
16 "A Most Advantageous Spot on the Map": Promotionand Popular Culture 289
Anthea Hartig
17 Tijuana and the Borders of Race 313
Josh Kun
18 Counterculture 327
Dave McBride
19 Cinema and the Making of a Modern City 346
Edward Dimendberg
20 Contemporary Voice: Looking for God in the City of Angels366
Matt Gainer
Part V Landscapes and Place 391
21 Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Landscape and theBuilt Environment 393
Greg Hise
22 America's Playground: Recreation and Race 421
Lawrence Culver
23 Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation 438
David Sloane
24 Excerpts from the San Gabriel River Series 461
Robbert Flick
25 Contemporary Voice: Thickets of Diversity, Swaths ofEmptyness 479
Christopher Hawthorne
Index 494
