Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures

Name: Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
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ISBN: 9780801882081

ISBN-10: 0801882087

ISBN-13: 9780801882081

Edition: 2005

Authors: Raï¿½l Homero Villa, George J. Sï¿½nchez, Raï¿½l Homero Villa, George J. Sï¿½nchez

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This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los Angeles has come to embody both the hopes and fears of Americans looking to the future. It is a city in which the local is deployed in complex practices of identity and community formation within the broader networks of globalization that continue to define and redefine what constitutes America. The articles in this volume address the complexities of the city's social geography across time,…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Raï¿½l Homero Villa is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles.



Preface



Introduction : Los Angeles studies and the future of urban cultures



Best MTA bus line : the number 18, yes, let's take a trip down Whittier Boulevard



Learning from Los Angeles : another one rides the bus



Los Angeles and American studies in a Pacific world of migrations



Border city : race and social distance in Los Angeles



The figure of the neighbor : Los Angeles past and future



Straight into compton : American dreams, urban nightmares, and the metamorphosis of a black suburb



L.A. woman : Charlotta Bass and the complexities of black political development in Los Angeles



"What's good for Boyle heights is good for the Jews" : creating multiracialism on the eastside during the 1950s



The art of the city : modernism, censorship, and the emergence of Los Angeles's postwar art scene



Bringing music to the people : race, urban culture, and municipal politics in postwar Los Angeles



The battle of Los Angeles : the cultural politics of Chicana/o music in the greater eastside



What is an MC if he can't rap to banda? : making music in Nuevo L.A.



Fools banished from the kingdom : remapping geographies of gang violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)



Borders and social distinction in the global suburb



Nuestra Los Angeles