04666nam 2200757Ia 450 991046311660332120200520144314.01-282-36055-897866123605580-520-94169-110.1525/9780520941694(CKB)2670000000355273(EBL)470856(OCoLC)609849942(SSID)ssj0000290230(PQKBManifestationID)11275168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290230(PQKBWorkID)10408579(PQKB)10619997(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055938(MiAaPQ)EBC470856(DE-B1597)520683(DE-B1597)9780520941694(Au-PeEL)EBL470856(CaPaEBR)ebr10675686(CaONFJC)MIL236055(EXLCZ)99267000000035527320060612d2007 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrBohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics[electronic resource] /Daniel HurewitzBerkeley University of California Pressc20071 online resource (380 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24925-9 0-520-25623-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-341) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction: Traversing the Hills of Edendale --Prologue: A World Left Behind --1. "A Most Lascivious Picture of Impatient Desire" --2. Together against the World: Self, Community, and Expression among the Artists of Edendale --3. 1930's Containment: Identity by State Dictate --4. Left of Edendale: The Deep Politics of Communist Community --5. The United Nations in a City: Racial Ideas in Edendale, on the Left, and in Wartime Los Angeles --6. Getting Some Identity: Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction --Conclusion: The Struggle of Identity Politics --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexBohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. In this vividly written narrative, he discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations. Bohemian Los Angeles, incorporating fascinating oral histories, personal letters, police records, and rare photographs, shifts our focus from gay and bohemian New York to the west coast with significant implications for twentieth-century U.S. history and politics.Cultural pluralismCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryArtistsCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryPolitical activistsCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryCommunity lifeCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryEdendale (Los Angeles, Calif.)Politics and government20th centuryEdendale (Los Angeles, Calif.)Intellectual life20th centuryEdendale (Los Angeles, Calif.)Social conditions20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Politics and government20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Intellectual life20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Social conditions20th centuryElectronic books.Cultural pluralismHistoryArtistsHistoryPolitical activistsHistoryCommunity lifeHistory979.4/94053Hurewitz Daniel1028268MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463116603321Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics2444216UNINA