Urban Latino Cultures La vida latina en LA [Paperback]

Urban Latino Cultures seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to address and examine issues of Latino identity and representation in Los Angeles. The contributors write from a wide variety of disciplines including geography, performance art, and literary criticism. All confront issues of Latino urban identity and the production of Los Angeles social space in their work.

Urban Latino Cultures seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to address and examine issues of Latino identity and representation in Los Angeles. The contributors write from a wide variety of disciplines including geography, performance art, and literary criticism. All confront issues of Latino urban identity and the production of Los Angeles social space in their work.

"An exuberant, relevatory joy ride through the best part of town. The first book on Los Angeles that Walt Whitman could sing along with." 

Introduction - Gustavo Leclerc and Michael J Dear
La Vida Latina en LA
Aquí Estamos Y No Nos Vamos - Raúl Villa
Place Struggles in Latino Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine - Don Normark
El Movimiento - Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in Coverstation with Michael Dear
The Chicano Cultural Project Since the 1960s
Bars and Belonging - María Elena Fernández
Tres Poemas - Gloria Enedina Alvarez
La Movida - Rubén Martínez
Manuela S-t-i-t-c-h-e-d - Christina Fernandez
Juan Soldado - Alma López
Spanish Caprice - Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres
On Foto-Novelas - Carlos Avila
<i>Distant Water</i> and <i>In the Mirror</i>