City of Industry: genealogies of power in Southern California
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1. Verfasser: Valle, Victor M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
City of Industry is a stunning exposé on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces. Investigating Industry's archives, including sealed FBI reports, Valle uncovered a series of scandals from the city's founder James M. Stafford to present day corporate heir Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developer. While exposing the corruption and corporate greed spawned from the growth of new technology and engineering, Valle reveals the plight of the property-owning servants, especially Latino working-class communities, who have fallen victim to the effects of this tale of c
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Decoding the Chinatown Technologies; Chapter 1: His Theater of Shame; Chapter 2: A Legacy of Debt, Rails, and Nooses; Chapter 3: In the School of Power; Chapter 4: Graduation Day; Chapter 5: "We Don't Like the Dirty Deal"; Chapter 6: Triangulating the Throne; Chapter 7: Sowing a Field, Climbing a Tree; Chapter 8: Scaring the Pests Away; Chapter 9: The Other Chinatowns; Chapter 10: Jim's Busy Period; Chapter 11: Assembling Jim's Portrait; Chapter 12: Jim's Hot Vegas Tip; Chapter 13: A Punishing Gaze; Chapter 14: Performing His Whiteness
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 316 pages)
ISBN:0813548381
9780813548388

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