Politics and Society Books on Los Angeles, California

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

by Kelly Lytle Hernández (Author)

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Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

by Paul Haddad (Author), Patt Morrison (Foreword)

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A People's Guide to Los Angeles (A People's Guide Series)

by Laura Pulido, Laura R. Barraclough, Wendy Cheng (Authors)

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City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined

by Peter Lunenfeld (Author)

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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles

by Jerald Podair (Author)

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Everything Now

by Rosecrans Baldwin (Author)

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Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (Justice, Power, and Politics)

by Max Felker-Kantor (Author)

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Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941 (The David J. Weber the New Borderlands History)

by Jessica Kim (Author)

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Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles

by Rocío Rosales (Author)

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Los Angeles Underworld (Images of America)

by Avi Bash, J. Michael Niotta PhD (Authors)

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Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"

by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee (Author)

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Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles (Latina/o Sociology, 7)

by Emir Estrada (Author)

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The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

by Susanna Phillips Newbury (Author)

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The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons For The Urban Future (Urban Policy Challenges)

by Mark Baldassare, David O Sears, Edgar W Butler, Peter A Morrison, James A Regalado (Authors), EDITOR * (Editor)

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Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities

by Ken Bernstein (Author), Stephen Schafer (Photographer)

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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

by Gary Krist (Author)

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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America

by Steven J. Ross (Author)

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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018

by David Kipen (Editor)

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To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America

by Felicia Angeja Viator (Author)

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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

by D.J. Waldie (Author)

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Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

by Martha Gonzalez (Author)

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Memoirs of an American Buddhist in Los Angeles: Synchronicity is No Coincidence

by Deborah Favorite (Author)

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Rock Me on the Water: 1974--the Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

by Ronald Brownstein (Author)

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Joan Didion's Los Angeles

by Catherine Brobeck, Herb Lester Associates (Authors)

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An Imaginary Real Place: Fragments of Los Angeles by a Longtime Visitor

by Adam M Gropman (Author)

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Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles

by Rodolfo F. Acuna (Author)

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Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine # 54 Ten Year Anniversary Issue

by Hudley Flipside (Author)

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South Central Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity)

by Abigail Rosas (Author)

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Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations (Volume 12) (Western Histories)

by Yu Tokunaga (Author)

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