Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come to define both the material and spiritual force of American civilization. The American dream is realized, experienced, and lost in the City of Angels. Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, dialogues, and photographs, seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles. It examines the social, political, cultural, and literary climate of the city, bringing together diverse responses to the complexities facing Los Angeles from respected intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mike Davis, Deepak Chopra, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. By uncovering the forces that marginalize Los Angeles's ever-shifting populations into internal third worlds, the collection unmasks the raw contradictions, the grim paradoxes, and the understated ironies of the global city.
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"Here is the first installment, strong and compelling, of the breakthrough analysis Los Angeles has so long deserved ." --Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California
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Deepak Narang Sawhney is the editor of Must We Burd Sade? and The Divine Sade. He is currently a Fellow of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
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Once a shantytown on the outskirts of America's manifest destiny. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, United States, Southern California, Third World, Deepak Narang Sawhney, New York, Mike Davis, African American, San Diego, City of Angels, Morrow Mayo, Deepak Chopra, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Pacific Rim, San Francisco, Christian Parenti, Joseph Nevins, Mexican Mafia, Satellites of Sorrow, Thousand Plateaus, World War, Marquis de Sade, First World, Journey Beyond the Stars, The Occidental Accident New!
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Once a shantytown on the outskirts of America's manifest destiny. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, United States, Southern California, Third World, Deepak Narang Sawhney, New York, Mike Davis, African American, San Diego, City of Angels, Morrow Mayo, Deepak Chopra, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Pacific Rim, San Francisco, Christian Parenti, Joseph Nevins, Mexican Mafia, Satellites of Sorrow, Thousand Plateaus, World War, Marquis de Sade, First World, Journey Beyond the Stars, The Occidental Accident New!
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- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze on 6 pages
- This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald on 4 pages
- Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis in Front Matter, page 21, and page 211
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis in Front Matter, and page 116
- The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West on page 203
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