The Border and the Line : Race, Literature, and Los Angeles / Dean J. Franco. by Franco, Dean J., 1968-

Subjects: “…American literature California Los Angeles African American authors History and criticism.…”
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The tide was always high : the music of Latin America in Los Angeles / edited by Josh Kun ; published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation.

Subjects: “…Popular music California Los Angeles Latin American influences.…”
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Popular theater for social change in Latin America : essays in Spanish and English / Gerardo Luzuriaga, editor.

“…Latin American studies (University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center) ;…”

The orgy : modern one-act plays from Latin America / edited and translated by Gerardo Luzuriaga and Robert S. Rudder.

“…Latin American studies (University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center) ;…”

The Latin image in American film / Allen L. Woll. by Woll, Allen L.

“…Latin American studies (University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center) ;…”

Newspaper coverage of interethnic conflict : competing visions of America / by Hemant Shah and Michael C. Thornton. by Shah, Hemant, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…., 1991 -- Los Angeles, 1992 -- Los Angeles Times coverage of Los Angeles -- La Opiniʹon coverage of Los Angeles -- African American newspaper coverage of Los Angeles -- Asian American newspaper coverage of Los Angeles.…”
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From the Shahs to Los Angeles : three generations of Iranian Jewish women between religion and culture / Saba Soomekh. by Soomekh, Saba

Table of Contents: “…Women of change -- The generation of the constitutional monarchy -- All the Shah's women -- Life in Los Angeles -- Jewish American and Persian.…”
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Blue dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots / Nancy Abelmann and John Lie. by Abelmann, Nancy, Lie, John

Table of Contents: “…The Los Angeles riots, the Korean American story -- Reckoning via the riots -- Diaspora formation: modernity and mobility -- Mapping the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles -- Korean American entrepreneurship -- American ideologies on trial.…”
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Reading American novels and multicultural aesthetics : romancing the postmodern canon / Lou Freitas Caton. by Caton, Louis Freitas

Table of Contents: “…Matthiessen's American renaissance -- Multicultural and postcolonial contexts: philosophy's self and other -- Poststructural contexts: Paul de Man's uncertainty anxiety and the allegory of division -- Practice: romantic critical readings of America's contemporary novel -- A southwestern Laguna native American perspective: western eyes and Indian visions in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- A Korean American perspective: tolerating truth and knowledge in Chang-Rae Lee's Native speaker -- A south Los Angeles Mexican American perspective: hope and full sensuality in Luis Rodriguez's Always running; La vida loca; Gang days in L.A. -- An Antigua Caribbean American perspective: the quest for empowerment in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- A white European American perspective: imagining family and community in Don DeLillo's White noise -- Feeling romantic, thinking postmodern: last words on form in a multicultural age.…”

Screening the city / edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice.

Table of Contents: “…The postmodern city: North America -- After the sixties: changing paradigms in the representation of urban space / Allan Siegel -- A nostalgia for modernity: New York, Los Angeles, and American cinema in the 1970s / Mark Shiel -- The affective city: urban black bodies and milieu in Menace II society and Pulp fiction / Paul Gormley -- City spaces and city times: Bakhtin's Chronotope and recent African-American film / Paula J. …”

Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s / edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell.

Table of Contents: “…Nicolaides -- Sunshine and the open shop : Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- "Another world" : work, home, and autonomy in blue-collar suburbs / Nancy Quam-Wickham -- The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP : pageantry, politics, and the Los Angeles African American community / Douglas Flamming -- Making Mexico in Los Angeles / Douglas Monroy -- The view from Spring Street : white-collar men in the city of angels / Clark Davis -- "Practically every religion being represented" / Michael E. …”
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Afro-Pentecostalism : Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in history and culture / edited by Amos Yong and Estrelda Y. Alexander.

Table of Contents: “…Alexander, Amos Yong -- The Azuza Street Mission and historic Black churches : two worlds in conflict in Los Angeles' African American community / Cecil M. Robeck Jr. -- Navigating the territory : early Afro-Pentecostalism as a movement within Black civil society / David D. …”
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Interpreting African American history and culture at museums and historic sites / edited by Max A. van Balgooy.

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Preserving Los Angeles' African American historic places / by Jenny Scanlin and Teresa Grimes -- More than just a building: interpreting the legacy of the Frederick Douglass Elementary School / by Wendi Manuel-Scott and Sara Howard-O'Brien -- Soul soldiers: giving voice to Vietnam's veterans / by Robbie Davis -- Making African American history relevant through co-creation and community service learning / by Robert Connolly and Ana M. …”
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Eclipse / Linda Hogan. by Hogan, Linda

Roots : an Asian American reader / Editors: Amy Tachiki [and others.

The light on the tent wall : a bridging / Mary TallMountain ; with illustrations by Claire Fejes. by TallMountain, Mary

Entrys / Peter Bacho. by Bacho, Peter

Broadcast television : a research guide / compiled by Fay C. Schreibman ; edited by Peter J. Bukalski. by Schreibman, Fay C.

Moving the image : independent Asian Pacific American media arts / edited and introduced by Russell Leong ; with a preface by Linda Mabalot.

The last refuge : the Aetas of the Philippines / by Amphion Production ; directed by Matthew Westfall ; produced by David Weisman, Matthew Westfall.

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