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Making the San Fernando Valley : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege /
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley -home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles- Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-the-ground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Geographies of justice and social transformation ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Creating the foundations of rural Whiteness, 1900-1960
- Creating Whiteness through gentleman farming
- Narrating conquest in local history
- Producing Western heritage in the postwar suburb
- pt. 2. Consolidating rural Whiteness, 1960-2000
- Protecting rurality through horse-keeping in the northeast valley
- Linking Western heritage and environmental justice in the west San Fernando Valley
- pt. 3. Rural Whiteness in the twenty-first century
- Urban restructuring and the consolidation of rural Whiteness
- Beliefs about landscape, anxieties about change
- "Rural culture" and the politics of multiculturalism.