Spring 2012 - University of California Press

California & the west
Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
“Forget the stars’ map of Hollywood: this is the real trip through an
LA history of militant strikers, civil rights activists and unforgettable
feminists. A tour de force of imagination and memory.”
Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in 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 occured. 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.
APRIL
312 pages, 6 x 9”, 91 color illustrations,
67 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 14 maps
Urban Studies/California & the West
World
paper 978-0-520-27081-7 $27.95/£19.95
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