Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles 9781442251304, 9781442251298

Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform 9780813548500

At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate co

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Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles 9780520938496

This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective o

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In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles 9780813583181

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the empl

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles 9780520939714

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly det

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Pocket Los Angeles 9788771489774

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Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 9780520939202

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health sha

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Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles 9780822392620

A social and cultural history of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the 1992

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Turnaround Urbanism - Perspektivwechsel und Transformation in Downtown Los Angeles: Downtown Los Angeles 2019 9783839443941

In 1982 the movie Blade Runner depicted a dystopia of the urban image of Los Angeles - yet the scenario of terror did no

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Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism 9780520933804

In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and

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Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 9780822389385

A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R&B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles d

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