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Title:

Post-ghetto : reimagining South Los Angeles / edited by Josh Sides.

Publisher:

Published for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

vii, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
African Americans--Relations with Mexican Americans.
Inner cities--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Social conflict--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions.

Other Authors:

Sides, Josh, 1972-
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a brief history of the American ghetto / Josh Sides -- Las plazas of South Los Angeles / Jorge N. Leal -- Renewal through retail? : corporate retail investment in South Los Angeles / Josh Sides -- Reclaiming the soil : gardening and sustainable development in South Los Angeles / Natale Zappia -- Food justice in South Los Angeles / Mark Vallianatos, Andrea Azuma, Robert Gottlieb -- Alcohol nuisances and food deserts : combating social hazards in South Los Angeles environment / David C. Sloane -- Headway for African American workers in South Los Angeles / Edna Bonacich and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson -- New directions in street gang prevention for youth : the Los Angeles experience / Karen M Hennigan and Cheryl Maxson -- "Gente-fication" on demand : the cultural redevelopment of South LA / Scott Saul -- Setting the seen : Hollywood, South Los Angeles and the politics of film / Danny Widener -- Homicide, the new LAPD, and South Los Angeles / Jill Leovy -- Conclusion : directions to post-ghetto Los Angeles / Josh Sides.

Series:

Western histories ; 5

ISBN:

0873282523 (alk. paper)
9780873282529 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)778314667

LCCN:

2012005115

Locations:

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