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With inspired juxtapositions, the editors give us a pathbreaking volume that contextualizes and historicizes their unexpected selections to reveal a too often unspoken genealogy of Los Angeles Latinx nonfiction. -Otto Santa Ana, professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles -- Otto Santa Ana This book will pump new life into future reviews of Los Angeles's literature, strengthen the city's grasp on the peoples and facts of its opaque history, and stimulate teachers to imagine, with their students, a better democracy for all. This finely written book, in both its critical vision and more than a dozen examples of liberating journalism, is a strong step toward an urban humanities that puts Latinx nonfiction writing about LA, for the first time maybe, into the `We' of `We the People' of the global city. -David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School -- David Carrasco Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and Victor Valle have assembled an intriguing anthology of how and what Mexican Americans and other U.S. Latinx think about Los Angeles. Its other virtue, a provocative pair of essays on the city's literary culture, proposes a critical agenda for reimagining an urban practice of humanities at this time of anti-immigrant hysteria. -David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of Sao Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production -- David William Foster

With inspired juxtapositions, the editors give us a pathbreaking volume that contextualizes and historicizes their unexpected selections to reveal a too often unspoken genealogy of Los Angeles Latinx nonfiction. --Otto Santa Ana, professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles--Otto Santa Ana (09/19/2017) This book will pump new life into future reviews of Los Angeles's literature, strengthen the city's grasp on the peoples and facts of its opaque history, and stimulate teachers to imagine, with their students, a better democracy for all. This finely written book, in both its critical vision and more than a dozen examples of liberating journalism, is a strong step toward an urban humanities that puts Latinx nonfiction writing about LA, for the first time maybe, into the 'We' of 'We the People' of the global city. --David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School --David Carrasco (09/19/2017) Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and Victor Valle have assembled an intriguing anthology of how and what Mexican Americans and other U.S. Latinx think about Los Angeles. Its other virtue, a provocative pair of essays on the city's literary culture, proposes a critical agenda for reimagining an urban practice of humanities at this time of anti-immigrant hysteria. --David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of Sao Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production --David William Foster (09/19/2017)

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Ignacio LÓpez-Calvo is a professor of literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. Victor Valle is a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. A former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Valle earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with fellow journalists. He is the author of several books, including Latino Metropolis and City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California.

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