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Author:

Barraclough, Laura R.

Title:

Making the San Fernando Valley : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege / Laura R. Barraclough.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Race relations.
Whites--San Fernando Valley--San Fernando Valley--History.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Rural conditions.
Landscapes--History.--San Fernando Valley--San Fernando Valley--History.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Geography.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Urbanization--San Fernando Valley--San Fernando Valley--History.
Social change--San Fernando Valley--San Fernando Valley--History.
Cultural pluralism--San Fernando Valley--San Fernando Valley--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 3

ISBN:

0820336807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820336800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820335622 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820335629 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)610018954

LCCN:

2010015808

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)