![]() | Public Los Angeles: A Private City''s Activist Futures Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions; Political activists -- California -- Los Angeles; Social justice -- California -- Los Angeles; Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers, structured around single-family homes and an aggressively competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated or caricatured as the epitome of an American society bent on individualism, entrepreneurialism, and market ingenuity. But Don Parson presents a different vision for the vast Southern California metropolis, one that is deftly illustrated by stories of sustained struggles for social and economic justice led by activists, social workers, architects, housing officials, and a courageous judge. Don Parson (Author) DON PARSON (1955-2018) was an independent scholar and author of Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles . Roger Keil (Editor) ROGER KEIL is a professor of environmental studies at York University in Toronto and author of several books, including Suburban Planet and Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles. Judy Branfman (Editor) JUDY BRANFMAN is a filmmaker, writer, and research scholar at UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. |
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