A guide to visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, and Southern California that provides information on beaches, restaurants, sights, activities, accommodations, and more and includes forty-seven maps, trip-planning tools, and background information on the area.
This new edition of Mike Davis's visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.
"This new edition of Mike Davis's visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century. No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you c…
Humanity currently lacks direction for the future; society must fundamentally change its ways of living and existing. Societies have shifted away from their agrarian past, and many cities are confronted with densification to accommodate an endless flow of new urbanites. Cities a…
This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and …
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is home to one of the largest independent school police forces in the nation. Until recently, the Los Angeles School Police Department commanded a 70 million budget and possessed a weapons arsenal that included grenade launchers, M-16s…
Korean American Creations and Discontents looks at Korean American subjectivity in Los Angeles after the 1992 Riots/Uprisings. This project begins with the LAPD beating of Rodney King and ends with the fatal Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. This dissertation is necess…
This dissertation has two primary aims: to demonstrate how women guitarists have been the primary advocates for the construction of a guitar-specific institutional landscape, and — with a specific focus on American guitarist Vahdah Olcott Bickford (1885–19890) — to narrate the h…
The present-day neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park, historically known as Edendale, contain a significant concentration of historic resources associated with Los Angeles’ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities from the early to late-twentieth …
This dissertation project identifies the anti-colonial and anti-racist traditions that Black and Brown Angelenos have created, specifically the artworks expressing cultural pride and solidarity with each other. While other scholars have looked at Black and Latina/o/x Los Angeles…
This essay examines the notion of the real as it pertains to images, experiences, and the paintings that result from them. I advocate for a way of painting that I refer to as indexical and I surmise that painted moments derived by way of indexical marks subvert the polarized cat…
This project seeks to address how silence, noise, and spectacles are represented in relation to foreclosing natural and economic systems and what they might signify as either fuel for, or a drain on, imaginative reverie in three main texts: Upton Sinclair’s Oil! (1927), Karen Ta…
