Bohemian Los Angeles And the Making of Modern Politics

Name: Bohemian Los Angeles And the Making of Modern Politics
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ISBN: 9780520256231

ISBN-10: 0520256239

ISBN-13: 9780520256231

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daniel Hurewitz, D. Bohemian

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Bohemian Los Angelesbrings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Daniel Hurewitzis Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author ofStepping Out: Nine Walks through New York's Gay and Lesbian Past.



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Traversing the Hills of Edendale


Prologue


A World Left Behind



"A Most Lascivious Picture of Impatient Desire"



Together against the World: Self, Community, and Expression among the Artists of Edendale



1930s Containment: Identity by State Dictate



Left of Edendale: The Deep Politics of Communist Community



The United Nations in a City: Racial Ideas in Edendale, on the Left, and in Wartime Los Angeles



Getting Some Identity: Mattachine and th<$$$>