Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of

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Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past

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 cityâ€”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 In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriatingâ€”and even obliteratingâ€”the region's connections to Mexican places and people.

Deverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850s as a city seething with racial enmity due to the recent war with Mexico. He explains how, within a generation, the city's business interests, looking for a commercially viable way to establish urban identity, borrowed Mexican cultural traditions and put on a carnival called La Fiesta de Los Angeles. He analyzes the subtle ways in which ethnicity came to bear on efforts to corral the unpredictable Los Angeles River and shows how the resident Mexican population was put to work fashioning the modern metropolis. He discusses how Los Angeles responded to the nation's last major outbreak of bubonic plague and concludes by considering the Mission Play, a famed drama tied to regional assumptions about history, progress, and ethnicity. Taking all of these elements into consideration, Whitewashed Adobe uncovers an urban identityâ€”and the power structure that fostered itâ€”with far-reaching implications for contemporary Los Angeles.

Country	USA
Author	William Deverell
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520932531
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	331
PublicationDate	2004-06-03
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2003-06-01
Studio	University of California Press

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past

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