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1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An introduction to A people's guide to Los Angeles -- North Los Angeles : Biddy Mason Park ; Black Cat Bar ; Bus Riders Union and Labor/Community Strategy Center ; Caballeros de Dimas-Alang and Philippines review / California Club ; Calle do los Negros ; Chavez Ravine ; Chinatowns ; ChoSun Galbee Restaurant ; Downey Block ; El Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Espańola ; Embassy Hotel and Auditorium ; Fernando's Hideaway and Sisters of Gabriela, Awaken! Gay Liberation Front (1969-1972)/former home of Morris Kight ; Gay Women's Service Center ; If Café and Open Door ; Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA) and Villa Park ; Kyoto Grand Hotel ; L.A. Live ; La Placita and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels ; League of Southern California Japanese Gardeners ; Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters and Parker Center ; Los Angeles River Center and Gardens ; Los Angeles Times Building (former) ; Musicians Union Hall (Local 47) ; Orpheum Theatre, Sleepy Lagoon Murder, and Ventura School for Girls ; Partido Liberal Mexicano ; Pershing Square ; Roosevelt Hotel--the Cinegrill ; Tropical America Mural ; Yang-Na -- The greater Eastside and San Gabriel Valley : Alma Avenue--Residential Discrimination Site ; Altadena Open Housing Covenant ; AMVAC Chemical Corporation ; Atlantic Square ; Cathay Bank ; East Los Angeles Prison (proposed) and Vernon Incinerator (proposed) ; El Espectador ; El Monte Sweatshop ; Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center ; Hicks Camp/Rio Vista Park ; Lacy Park ; Llano del Rio ; Mariachi Plaza ; Mount Sinai Home Care Agency ; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Richard Chambers Courthouse) ; Owen Brown's gravesite ; Quemetco, Incorporated ; Ruben Salazar Park and Silver Dollar Café ; San Gabriel Mission ; Santa Anita Park and Pomona Fairgrounds ; Self-Help Graphics and Art ; Upton Sinclair's house ; Whittier State School. |
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South Los Angeles : Alameda Boulevard ; Alondra Park ; American Indian Movement, Los Angeles Chapter ; Bicycle Club Casino ; Black Panther Party Headquarters ; California Eagle ; Chuco's Justice Center and FREE L.A. High School ; Compton Communicative Arts Academy ; Dorothy Ray Healey's house ; Duke Brothers' Automotive Shop ; Dunbar Hotel ; Eso Won Bookstore and Leimert Park ; Firestone Tire and Rubber ; Holiday Bowl ; Holman United Methodist Church ; Indian Revival Center ; Kashu Realty and Thirty-sixth Street Residential Discrimination Site ; Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ; Mercado La Paloma ; Peace and Freedom Party, Los Angeles Chapter ; Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research ; Trianon Ballroom ; USC McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium -- The Harbor and South Bay : Baypoint Avenue Residential Discrimination Site ; Bixby Park ; Lakewood City Hall ; Mark Twain Library and Cambodia Town ; Miramar Park ; Port of Los Angeles and Liberty Hill ; Puvungna ; Terminal Island ; White Point Reserve and Education Center ; Ziba Beauty Center -- The Westside : Ballona Wetlands ; Campbell Hall, UCLA ; Century City ; Federal Buildings ; Highways Performance Space ; The Ink Well ; Los Angeles International Airport ; Malibu public beaches ; Midnight Special and Sisterhood Bookstores ; West Hollywood City Hall ; Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring -- The San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County : BUSTOP ; Chicana and Chicano Studies and Pan African Studies Departments, California State University, Northridge ; Everywoman's Village ; General Motors Van Nuys ; The Great Wall and Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) ; KPFK Radio Station and Pacifica Archives ; Lang Station ; Saint Francis Dam ; Santa Susana Field Laboratory ; Simi Valley Courthouse and sit of Rodney King beating ; Siutcanga/Village of Los Encinos ; Tarzana ; Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants ; Val Verde Park ; Wat Thai of Los Angeles -- Thematic tours : First peoples tour ; Radical People-of-Color Movements of the 1960s and '70s tour ; Queer politics and culture tour ; Independent and alternative media tour ; Economic restructuring and globalization tour ; New organizing tour ; Environmental justice tour. |
| Summary |
This book documents 115 little-known sites in Los Angeles where struggles related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment 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. |
| Subject |
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Guidebooks.
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Los Angeles Region (Calif.) -- Guidebooks.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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California -- Los Angeles.
(OCoLC)fst01204540
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California -- Los Angeles Region.
(OCoLC)fst01342844
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| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks. (OCoLC)fst01423871
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Guidebooks.
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| Added Author |
Barraclough, Laura R.
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Cheng, Wendy, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9780520270817 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0520270819 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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