Unmasking L.A.
Subtitle: Third Worlds & the City
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312292898
Subjects: Cultural studies; Urban communities; c 1990 to c 2000; Social Science; History - U.S.; Sociology; California; Ethnic Studies - General; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Civilization; Immigrants; Intellectual life; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.); Pluralism (Social sciences); Social conditions
First sentence: Once a shantytown on the outskirts of America's manifest destiny.