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Making the San Fernando Valley : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barraclough, Laura R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]
Series:Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 3.
Subjects:
San Fernando Valley (Calif.) > Social conditions.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.) > Geography.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.) > Rural conditions.
San Fernando Valley (Calif.) > Race relations.
Cultural pluralism > California > San Fernando Valley > History.
Social change > California > San Fernando Valley > History.
Urbanization > California > San Fernando Valley > History.
Landscapes > Social aspects > California > San Fernando Valley > History.
Whites > California > San Fernando Valley > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Creating the foundations of rural Whiteness, 1900-1960
  • Creating Whiteness through gentleman farming
  • Narrating conquest in local history
  • Producing Western heritage in the postwar suburb
  • pt. 2. Consolidating rural Whiteness, 1960-2000
  • Protecting rurality through horse-keeping in the northeast valley
  • Linking Western heritage and environmental justice in the west San Fernando Valley
  • pt. 3. Rural Whiteness in the twenty-first century
  • Urban restructuring and the consolidation of rural Whiteness
  • Beliefs about landscape, anxieties about change
  • "Rural culture" and the politics of multiculturalism.