A people's guide to Los Angeles

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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 A…

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Title Statements

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

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:c2012.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xi, 309 pages) : : illustrations (en couleur), cartes.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520953345, 0520953347, 1280781432, 9781280781438
oclc:on1097305622
LC Classification:F869.L83
Dewey Decimal:979.4/94

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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.

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