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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 …
Barrio-Logos: Space And Place In Urban Chicano Literature And Culture, Raul Villa
Barrio-Logos: Space And Place In Urban Chicano Literature And Culture, Raul Villa
Raul Villa
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave rise to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have developed in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States’ annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary …
Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina En La, Raul Villa, Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc
Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina En La, Raul Villa, Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc
Raul Villa
Although online full text is not available, the Special Collections Department at Occidental College owns a copy of this title: http://oasys.lib.oxy.edu//record=b1629223~S0