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The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that portray a collision of race, class, gender, identity, food, and space. This collection connects daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. Recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that portray a collision of race, class, gender, identity, food, and space. This collection connects daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. Recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.
Foreword
Yolanda T. Moses
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Melissa King with Jenny Banh
Chapter 1 Hauntings of a Different Kind: Militarized Spaces and
Memories of Containment
Jocelyn Pacleb
Chapter 2 Bicycle Anthropology of Los Angeles
Adonia Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre
Chapter 3 The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead:
Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the
Post-Modern Global City
Nathalie Boucher
Chapter 4 Embodying Democratic Spaces: Community Organizer
Alternative Narratives That Challenge the Mainstream Negative
Stigma of South Los Angeles
George Villanueva
Chapter 5 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace:
Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil
Unrest
Kyeyoung Park
Chapter 6 Memory: The Angeleno Pharmakon
Charles Joseph
Chapter 7 Multiple Ways of Knowing: Layers of History on The Great
Wall of Los Angeles
Andrea Lepage
Chapter 8 Making Space: Ethnic Towns and the Racing of Public Space
in Los Angeles
Beth F. Baker and ChorSwang Ngin
Chapter 9 Agro-Ethnic Landscapes of Los Angeles
Natale Zappia
Chapter 10 A Conversation with Diego Vigil a Los Angeles Pioneer
Anthropologist: An Anthropologist
Past, Present, and Future
Jenny Banh
Conclusion
Jenny Banh
Jenny Banh is assistant professor of anthropology and Asian
American studies at California State University, Fresno.
Melissa King is faculty chair of the anthropology department at San
Bernardino Valley College.
Banh and King’s anthology is a timely and multifaceted addition to
Los Angeles studies and urban anthropology. Reminiscent of editors
Raúl Villa and George Sánchez’s Los Angeles and the Future of Urban
Cultures (2005), the book focuses on contestations of power and
space through public culture, agency, and memory. Threads of
activism and intersecting identities run throughout the chapters,
which range from the aftermath of the 1992 LA uprisings to the
Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, urban agriculture, and models of
community organizing. The book’s methodological emphasis on
ground-up ethnography (including autoethnography) is one of its
greatest strengths, along with interventions into scholarship of
the city that has largely drawn from archives, interviews, or
literary works.... [T]his is a useful volume for students and
scholars of postmodern urban landscapes, as well as practitioners
seeking an introduction to the heterogeneity of Los Angeles.
Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.
*CHOICE*
This important collection on Los Angeles exposes the formation of
contradictions in the fabric of society, the diversity of
communities, and the ongoing struggles to overcome the myriad
dimensions of the inequalities that exist today.
*Thomas Patterson, University of California, Riverside*
This book is a must-read in the growing body of literature on
postmodern Los Angeles. It offers a broad range of Angeleno
experiences that challenge urban anthropology's canon with
scholarship that centers on the people, and that intersects with
the studies of ethnic landscapes of race, class, and gender.
*Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University; author of Uninvited
Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990*
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