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*CITY OF PROMISE: RACE AND HISTORICAL CHANGE IN LOS ANGELES* * * *Editors Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge Discuss Their New Book: * *Saturday, May 13, 2 p.m.* Editors Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge will discuss their new book /City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles/, which offers an interpretation of Los Angeles through the eyes of its Latino, African-American, and Asian communities. By the end of the 1900s, Los Angeles had become the biggest multicultural center in the nation, boasting an extraordinary racial diversity. This book gives expression to the missing voices of different ethnic groups in the stories of Los Angeles' history, including the rich history of behind-the-scenes activities in the Latino communities of Los Angeles from the late 1940s to the 1960s that built and supported the political landscape many take for granted today. The book reading is offered as increasing attention is being called to the demographic shifts taking place in Los Angeles and their impacts, real and perceived. Books will be available for purchase. *@ the Southern California Library 6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles (between Slauson and Gage).* *Saturday, May 13, 2006, 2 p.m.* /Martin Schiesl is professor emeritus of history at California State University, Los Angeles. Mark M. Dodge is lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles, and teaches history at Pasadena City College./ As Los Angeles is made more complex by immigration, multicultural politics, and a post-industrial economy, it is more important than ever to understand the racialized dynamics that have shaped this city. As this book illustrates, *the structures of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism have used "minority status" as an excuse to disempower and exclude people.* In the United States, minority status has been created and maintained through a racialized discourse and the establishment of institutions and structures that have perpetuated differences in favor of the powerful. In the years to come, we will have to continue dismantling the inequities built into these structures over the previous centuries. By offering *a historical interpretation of how such systems were created, operated, and maintained in Los Angeles*, through the perspective of three ethnic groups, as well as how these groups resisted this system, this book provides us with *lessons** for the work ahead to achieve greater equity for everyone*. ### ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *For more information, go to our website: www.socallib.org Or call: (323) 759-6063 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
