num_pages: 191
description: Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angelesand the United Statesfrom the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up Chicana in Orange County becoming a bicycle anthropologist and co-founding Los Angeles's hallmark open streets cycling event CicLAvia along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington DC she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation.In the tradition of City of Quartz this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles race and class in the United States and the streets and people around you wherever you live.
language: English
title: Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
publisher: Microcosm Publishing