Making the San Fernando Valley [electronic resource] : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege / Laura R. Barraclough.
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TextSeries: Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 3. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 319 p. :) ill., mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820337579
- 0820337579
- San Fernando Valley (Calif.) -- Social conditions
- San Fernando Valley (Calif.) -- Geography
- San Fernando Valley (Calif.) -- Rural conditions
- San Fernando Valley (Calif.) -- Race relations
- Cultural pluralism -- California -- San Fernando Valley -- History
- Social change -- California -- San Fernando Valley -- History
- Urbanization -- California -- San Fernando Valley -- History
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- California -- San Fernando Valley -- History
- Whites -- California -- San Fernando Valley -- History
- 979.4/94 22
- F868.L8 B35 2011
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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