A People's Guide to Los Angeles [Paperback]

A Peoples Guide to Los Angelesoffers 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 regionsNorth Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valleythis illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.

Laura Pulidois Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Among her books isBlack, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles(UC Press).Laura Barracloughis Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kalamazoo College and the author ofMaking the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege.Wendy Chengis Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.

Forget the stars map of Hollywood: this is the real trip through an L.A. history of militant strikers, civil rights activists, and unforgettable feminists. A tour de force of imagination and memory. Mike Davis, author ofCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

A Peoples Guidebrings the reader to the Los Angeles I know and love. The amazingly diverse, vibrant, gritty LA filled with history and struggle. Finally, heres a guidebook that takes visitors to the places and people that make me proud to call Los Angeles my home. Madeline Janis, Executive Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)

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An Introduction to A Peoples Guide to Los Angeles