Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Online ISBN:
9780300156621
Print ISBN:
9780300141238
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Book
Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Published:
24 September 2013
Online ISBN:
9780300156621
Print ISBN:
9780300141238
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Cite
Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 (New Haven, CT , 2013; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 23 Jan. 2014), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300141238.001.0001, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This book expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.
Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Finding the Past
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1
A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781–1840
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2
“Members of the Same Family with Ourselves”: Intercultural Civic Ideals, Identities, and Spaces, 1840–1855
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3
“Impossible to Ascertain with Any Degree of Certainty”: Choosing Between Cooperation and Confrontation, 1855–1856
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4
“Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City”: Society, Space, and Public Policy, 1857–1861
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5
Judging “an ‘Ethiopian by His Skin’”: Politics, Violence, and the Power of Racialized Place, 1862–1872
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6
“Looking Across the Gulf of Immeasurable Distance”: The Divergent Paths of Los Angeles's Places and Peoples, 1870–1894
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Conclusion
“A Story Hidden Behind Every Crumbling Wal”: History and Memory in Los Angeles
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End Matter
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