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Making the San Fernando Valley

Barraclough, Laura R.

Making the San Fernando Valley rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege / [electronic resource] : Laura R. Barraclough. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 319 p. :) ill., maps ; - Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 3 . - Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 3. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-310) and index.

pt. 1. Creating the foundations of rural Whiteness, 1900-1960 -- Creating Whiteness through gentleman farming -- Narrating conquest in local history -- Producing Western heritage in the postwar suburb -- pt. 2. Consolidating rural Whiteness, 1960-2000 -- Protecting rurality through horse-keeping in the northeast valley -- Linking Western heritage and environmental justice in the west San Fernando Valley -- pt. 3. Rural Whiteness in the twenty-first century -- Urban restructuring and the consolidation of rural Whiteness -- Beliefs about landscape, anxieties about change -- "Rural culture" and the politics of multiculturalism.

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Cultural pluralism--History.--California--San Fernando Valley
Social change--History.--California--San Fernando Valley
Urbanization--History.--California--San Fernando Valley
Landscapes--Social aspects--History.--California--San Fernando Valley
Whites--History.--California--San Fernando Valley


San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Geography.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Rural conditions.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)--Race relations.


Electronic books.

F868.L8 / B35 2011

979.4/94