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 | A People's Guide to Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520953345 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Guidebooks; Los Angeles Region (Calif.) -- Guidebooks; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of GreaterLos Angeles, 1900-1970 ISBN: 9781469604442 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles Region (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations; Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Whites -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Agricultural laborers -- Californ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles ISBN: 9780812204100 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public art -- Political aspects -- California -- Los Angeles; Art and society -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Cultural policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 ISBN: 9780300156621 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Population -- History -- 19th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; Land se; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition ISBN: 9780520956872 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles; Minorities -- California -- Los Angeles; Community development -- California -- Los Angeles; Community life -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities ISBN: 9780814790922 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots ISBN: 9780674020030 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Korean Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Riots -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics ISBN: 9780520941694 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Edendale (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Edendale (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Edendale (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- California; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood ISBN: 9780253007001 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California ISBN: 9780813548388 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Police -- California -- City of Industry; City of Industry (Calif.) -- Social conditions; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout ISBN: 9781452950167 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Riots -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Protest movements -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations ISBN: 9780870818608 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Colorado Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles Calif.); Japanese Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Japanese Americans -- History; Japanese Americans -- California -- History; California -- Cultural policy; United States -- Cultural policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays ISBN: 9780520944756 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sewage disposal in the ocean -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Santa Monica Bay; Bennett Howard 1929–; Hyperion Water Treatment Plant (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History; Marine pollution -- California -- Santa Monica Bay -- Prevention; Santa Monic; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Down by the Station: Los Angeles Chinatown, 1880-1933 ISBN: 9781938770760 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chinatown (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Antiquities; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Antiquities; Chinese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- California -- Los Angeles; Chinese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- H; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis ISBN: 9780520970649 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Garland William May 1866–1948; Olympic host city selection -- 1932; Hosting of sporting events -- California -- Los Angeles; City planning -- California -- Los Angeles; Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles Calif.); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood ISBN: 9780520953680 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Motion picture actors and actresses -- California -- Los Angeles; Motion pictures and women -- United States; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History -- 20th; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church ISBN: 9780813545639 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Christianity and culture -- California -- Los Angeles; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Religion; Church work; Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941 ISBN: 9781469651361 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Relations -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- California -- Los Angeles; Mexico -- History -- Revolution 1910–; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles ISBN: 9780813583181 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles Suburban Area; Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present ISBN: 9780520939868 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century; African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels ISBN: 9781400873388 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Criminal investigation -- Fiction; Mathematics -- Fiction; Mathematics -- Miscellanea; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Land of Smoke and Mirrors ISBN: 9780813554587 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Popular culture; Los Angeles (Calif.); Motion picture industry; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.); ■ Detailed Information | |
| Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles ISBN: 9780813554587 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History; Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- In literature; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- In motion pictures; Motion picture industry -- California; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Latino Metropolis ISBN: 9780816688555 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Politics and government; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Economic conditions; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Race identity; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations; L; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors ISBN: 9781938770906 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Material culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century; Ethnoarchaeology -- California -- Los Angeles; Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century; Hom; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Los Angeles--Struggles toward Multiethnic Community: Asian American, African American, and Latino Perspectives ISBN: 9780295997773 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles ISBN: 9780816696055 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s ISBN: 9780520935525 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; City planning -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Nineteen twenti; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White ISBN: 9780815650713 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Syracuse University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Basketball -- Social aspects -- California -- San Fernando Valley; Granada Hills High School (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Basketball; Furman Andrew 1968– -- Anecdotes; School integration -- California -- San Fernando Valley; Segregation in education -- Cali; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Native Students at Work: American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945 ISBN: 9780295806662 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sherman Institute (Riverside Calif.) -- History; Off-reservation boarding schools -- California -- Riverside -- History; Indian students -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century; Indian students -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Employm; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence ISBN: 9780520961043 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Motion picture authorship; Motion picture plays; Screenwriters -- United States; Television writers -- United States; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State ISBN: 9780300152838 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Human services -- United States; Welfare state -- United States; Federal aid to public welfare -- United States; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social policy; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social policy; Washington (D.C.) -- Social policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD ISBN: 9781469646855 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department -- History -- 20th century; Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Police administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Discrimination in law enforcement -- Califor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department ISBN: 9780816687695 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) Police Dept; Police -- California -- Los Angeles; Police power -- California -- Los Angeles; Human territoriality -- California -- Los Angeles; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles ISBN: 9780691188027 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: LOS ANGELES (CALIF.) -- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; AFRO-AMERICANS -- CALIFORNIA -- LOS ANGELES -- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; LOS ANGELES (CALIF.) -- RACE RELATIONS; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel ISBN: 9781587297557 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Motion picture industry in literature; Desire in literature; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- In literature; West Nathanael 1903–1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Schulberg Budd -- Critic; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520939714 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century; Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles ISBN: 9780813548487 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Environmental justice -- California -- South Gate; Student movements -- California -- South Gate; Hispanic American high school students -- California -- South Gate -- Political activity; Sunlaw Energy Partners (Firm); South Gate (Calif.) -- Environmental; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights ISBN: 9780252092862 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gay rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Gay liberation movement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Gays -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; ONE Institute of Homophile Studies; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Public Los Angeles: A Private City's Activist Futures ISBN: 9780820356211 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions; Political activists -- California -- Los Angeles; Social justice -- California -- Los Angeles; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine ISBN: 9780816532353 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arizona Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History -- 20th century; Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Hispanic American neighborhoods -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th c; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520963092 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Streets -- California -- Los Angeles; Walking -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description and travel; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Sons And Daughters Of Los: Culture And Community In L.A. ISBN: 9781439901373 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Sociallife and customs; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions; City and town life -- California -- Los Angeles; Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles; Arts -- California -- Los; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520954854 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History; Minorities -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions; Minorities -- Political activity -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Community development -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Popul; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Strange Future ISBN: 9780822387497 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Pessimism; American literature; Ethnicity in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Poor; African Americans; Korean Americans; Rodney King Riots Los Angeles Calif. 1992.; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520941762 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century; Ethnic neighborhoods -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California ISBN: 9781452940267 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.) -- Race relations; Asian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles Suburban Area; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles Suburban Area; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles ISBN: 9781400849642 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government; Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Politics and government; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Charters; Secession -- California -- Los Angeles County; Secession -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520925557 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Murphy Franklin D. 1916–92; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Cultural policy; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century; Arts -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Museums -- California -- Los Ange; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon ISBN: 9780300158786 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History; Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles Calif.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information |