Catching hell in the city of angels; life and meanings of Blackness in south central Los Angeles.9780816641697 Catching hell in the city of angels; life and meanings of Blackness in south central Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Vargas, Joao H. Costa. U. of Minnesota Press 2006 305 pages $19.95 Paperback Critical American studies series F869 Vargas (African and African American studies African American studies (also known as Black studies and/or Africana studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. and anthropology, U. of Texas-Austin) describes and analyzes recent economic, demographic, and spatial transformations in Los Angeles from the perspective of its African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. population. He focuses diachronically and synchronically on the world-views and practices of those who have been discriminated against so thoroughly by virtue of their perceived race--and irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite their individual attributes, character, and effort--that their sheer collective existence is at risk. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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