City of Industry : : Genealogies of Power in Southern California /

City of Industry : : Genealogies of Power in Southern California / / Victor Valle.

Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, "The gritty crossroads of the global trade revolution that is transforming Southern California factories into warehouses, and adjacent working class communities i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Valle, Victor,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2011
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Decoding the Chinatown Technologies
  • 1. His Theater of Shame
  • 2. A Legacy of Debt, Rails, and Nooses
  • 3. In the School of Power
  • 4. Graduation Day
  • 5. "We Don't Like the Dirty Deal"
  • 6. Triangulating the Throne
  • 7. Sowing a Field, Climbing a Tree
  • 8. Scaring the Pests Away
  • 9. The Other Chinatowns
  • 10. Jim's Busy Period
  • 11. Assembling Jim's Portrait
  • 12. Jim's Hot Vegas Tip
  • 13. A Punishing Gaze
  • 14. Performing His Whiteness
  • 15. Burying the Body
  • Epilogue: Becoming His Paper Son
  • Notes
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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