LEADER 03840nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910815542603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93253-6 010 $a1-59875-005-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520932531 035 $a(CKB)111090529077450 035 $a(EBL)223367 035 $a(OCoLC)475927792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271364 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217879 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271364 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280413 035 $a(PQKB)11564096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223367 035 $a(DE-B1597)518989 035 $a(OCoLC)55741706 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520932531 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223367 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058553 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529077450 100 $a20030912d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhitewashed adobe $ethe rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past /$fWilliam Deverell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24667-5 311 $a0-520-21869-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations And Maps --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: City Of The Future --$t1. The Unending Mexican War --$t2. History On Parade --$t3. Remembering A River --$t4. The Color Of Brickwork Is Brown --$t5. Ethnic Quarantine --$t6. The Drama Of Los Angeles History --$tConclusion: Whitewashed Adobe --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aChronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city-including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920's. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating-and even obliterating-the region's connections to Mexican places and people. Deverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850's as a city seething with racial enmity due to the recent war with Mexico. He explains how, within a generation, the city's business interests, looking for a commercially viable way to establish urban identity, borrowed Mexican cultural traditions and put on a carnival called La Fiesta de Los Angeles. He analyzes the subtle ways in which ethnicity came to bear on efforts to corral the unpredictable Los Angeles River and shows how the resident Mexican population was put to work fashioning the modern metropolis. He discusses how Los Angeles responded to the nation's last major outbreak of bubonic plague and concludes by considering the Mission Play, a famed drama tied to regional assumptions about history, progress, and ethnicity. Taking all of these elements into consideration, Whitewashed Adobe uncovers an urban identity-and the power structure that fostered it-with far-reaching implications for contemporary Los Angeles. 606 $aMexican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xEthnic relations$xHistory 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xHistory 615 0$aMexican Americans$xHistory. 676 $a979.4/94046872 700 $aDeverell$b William Francis$0919568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815542603321 996 $aWhitewashed adobe$94102584 997 $aUNINA