{"product_id":"whitewashed-adobe-the-rise-of-los-angeles-and-the-remaking-of-its-mexican-past-paperback","title":"Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam F. Deverell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. \u003ci\u003eWhitewashed Adobe \u003c\/i\u003econsiders six different developments in the history of the city--including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating--and even obliterating--the region's connections to Mexican places and people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850s as a city seething with racial enmity due to the recent war with Mexico. He explains how, within a generation, the city's business interests, looking for a commercially viable way to establish urban identity, borrowed Mexican cultural traditions and put on a carnival called La Fiesta de Los Angeles. He analyzes the subtle ways in which ethnicity came to bear on efforts to corral the unpredictable Los Angeles River and shows how the resident Mexican population was put to work fashioning the modern metropolis. He discusses how Los Angeles responded to the nation's last major outbreak of bubonic plague and concludes by considering the Mission Play, a famed drama tied to regional assumptions about history, progress, and ethnicity. Taking all of these elements into consideration, \u003ci\u003eWhitewashed Adobe \u003c\/i\u003euncovers an urban identity--and the power structure that fostered it--with far-reaching implications for contemporary Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis magnificent book, the fruit of a decade of original research, is a landmark in Los Angeles's difficult conversation with its past. Deverell brilliantly exposes the white lies and racial deceits that have for too long reigned as municipal 'history.'Mike Davis\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis magnificent book, the fruit of a decade of original research, is a landmark in Los Angeles's difficult conversation with its past. Deverell brilliantly exposes the white lies and racial deceits that have for too long reigned as municipal 'history.'--Mike Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Deverell \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRailroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1994); coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe West in the History of the Nation \u003c\/i\u003e(2000) and \u003ci\u003eEden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 2000); and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMetropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) and \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Progressivism Revisited \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), both from California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 349\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390905966694,"sku":"9780520246676","price":63.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cDhTUGVMZ3U5UCsvT2NDRnlwemYvUT09.webp?v=1775123424","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/whitewashed-adobe-the-rise-of-los-angeles-and-the-remaking-of-its-mexican-past-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}