Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This innovative book . . . presents a particularly insightful intervention into [the debate over American national identity]." * Journal of Historical Geography *
"Barraclough has done a highly effective job in telling this story, as well as providing a template for other such research projects." * Journal of Arizona History *
"A fresh perspective that steers away from traditional historiographic approaches and joins the nascent literature on Mexican American and southwestern history." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *
"This book offers important contributions about identity and place that are apt to teach in courses ranging from an array of fields." * New Mexico Historical Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 • Claiming State Power in Mid-Twentieth-Century
Los Angeles
2 • Building San Antonio’s Postwar Tourist Economy
3 • Creating Multicultural Public Institutions
in Denver and Pueblo
4 • Claiming Suburban Public Space and Transforming
L.A.’s Racial Geographies
5 • Shaping Animal Welfare Laws and Becoming
Formal Political Subjects
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
