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Introduction: Los Angeles Studies And The Future Of Urban Cultures, Raul Villa, George J. Sanchez
Introduction: Los Angeles Studies And The Future Of Urban Cultures, Raul Villa, George J. Sanchez
Raul Villa
This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los Angeles has come to embody both the hopes and fears of Americans looking to the future. It is a city in which the local is deployed in complex practices of identity and community formation within the broader networks of globalization that continue to define and redefine what constitutes America. The articles in this volume address the complexities of the city's …