William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Recent publications include A Companion to California History (with David Igler, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companion to the American West (2004).  He has also co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (with Greg Hise, 2005) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (with Tom Sitton, 2001).Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of American cities. Hise is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).

“Every Los Angeles-based history, political science, and ethnic or urban studies instructor has been waiting for this anthology. …The book’s overarching aims serve to revisit and reenvision L.A.’s early history and prehistory, uncover long-term patterns obscured by earlier episodic treatments, and influence the shaping of the city’s future.”  (Western Historical Quarterly, 2012)"Overall, this is a fascinating fractured account of various time periods, events, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and urban sprawl in a city that has become synonymous with the American Dream." (Philosophy & Religion, November 2010)

• List of Plates viiNotes on Contributors xIntroduction xvWilliam Deverell and Greg HisePart I The Long History of a Global City 11 The Border Crossed US 2Matt Gainer2 Born Global: From Pueblo to Statehood 20Louise Pubols3 Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the Progressive Era 40Stephanie Lewthwaite4 Between “White Spot” and “World City”: Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism 56Scott Kurashige5 Contemporary Voice: Where You From? 72Susan StraightPart II Social Flashpoints 936 Social Flashpoints 95Eric Avila7 The Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Its Strange Career 110Victor Jew8 Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods 129George J. Sanchez9 Gridlock of Rage: The Watts and Rodney King Riots 147Scott Saul10 Contemporary Voice: Here, Now, I 168Angela OhPart III Politics and Economies 17511 Ab Urbe Condita: Regional Regimes since 13,000 Before Present 177Philip J. Ethington12 Crown Jewels: Infrastructure and Growth 216Steven P. Erie and Scott MacKenzie13 Consolidation, Fragmentation, and New Fiscal Federalism 233Tom Hogen-Esch14 Contemporary Voice: Contradictions, Coalitions, and Common Ground 250Manuel PastorPart IV Cultures and Communities 26715 Cultures and Communities 269Leo Braudy16 “A Most Advantageous Spot on the Map”: Promotion and Popular Culture 289Anthea Hartig17 Tijuana and the Borders of Race 313Josh Kun18 Counterculture 327Dave McBride19 Cinema and the Making of a Modern City 346Edward Dimendberg20 Contemporary Voice: Looking for God in the City of Angels 366Matt GainerPart V Landscapes and Place 39121 Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Landscape and the Built Environment 393Greg Hise22 America’s Playground: Recreation and Race 421Lawrence Culver23 Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation 438David Sloane24 Excerpts from the San Gabriel River Series 461Robbert Flick25 Contemporary Voice: Thickets of Diversity, Swaths of Emptyness 479Christopher HawthorneIndex 494