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Title:

Unmasking L.A. : third worlds and the city / edited by Deepak Narang Sawhney.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

x, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Pluralism (Social sciences)--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Immigrants--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
Immigrants--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Intellectual life.
Minorities--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
Minorities--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Intellectual life.
Human geography--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Civilization.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History.

Other Authors:

Sawhney, Deepak Narang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Journey beyond the stars : Los Angeles and third worlds / Deepak Narang Sawhney -- Sanbhashana : Los Angeles and the philosophies of disaster / Mike Davis and Deepak Narang Sawhney -- Satellites of sorrow : Los Angeles, prison, and circuits of social control / Christian Parenti -- Five poems : L.A. is still a place, These hands, If I were to say, Conversation inside-outside, and Earth swans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Mapping the unfindable : neighborhoods west of downtown L.A. as a magic realist computer game / Norman M. Klein -- Third world and "illegal" in the city of angels / Joseph Nevins --Deepak on Deepak : dialogues concerning natural religion, spiritual third worlds, and the city / Depak Chopra and Deepak Narang Sawhney -- Seeing L.A. anew (24 photographs) / Deepak Narang Sawhney -- This side of paradise : South Central Los Angeles and minor literature / Deepak Narang Sawhney -- Resistance art in Los Angeles / Paul Von Blum -- Los Angeles as metaphor : boiling frogs, killer bees, and subversive politics / Roger Keil -- The occidental accident / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Deepak Narang Sawhney -- The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy / Situationist International -- Forces of nature : the pasts and futures of Los Angeles ; an introduction to Morrow Mayo and "The birth of Los Angeles" / Deepak Narang Sawhney -- The birth of Los Angeles / Morrow Mayo.

ISBN:

9780312292898 (pbk.)
0312292899 (pbk.)
9780312240493
031224049X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48475086
(OCoLC)50102057

LCCN:

2001056138

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)