Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. "Whitewashed Adobe" considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating - and even obliterating - the region's connections to Mexican places and people.
- ISBN10 0520218698
- ISBN13 9780520218697
- Publish Date 3 June 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 349
- Language English