{"product_id":"latino-metropolis-victor-m-valle-9780816630301","title":"Latino Metropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e A readable look at culture and politics in Los Angeles through a Latino lens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges-its huge, shimmering economy was built on the backs of largely Latino immigrants and still depends on them. This book exposes the underside of the development and restructuring that have turned Los Angeles into a global city, and in doing so it reveals the ways in which ideas about ethnicity-Latino identity itself-are implicated and elaborated in the process. A penetrating analysis of the social, economic, cultural, and political consequences of the growth of the Latino working-class populations in Los Angeles, Latino Metropolis is also a nuanced account of the complex links between political economy and the social construction of ethnicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLifting examples from recent news stories, political encounters, and cultural events, the authors demonstrate how narratives about Latinos are used to maintain the status quo-particularly the existing power grid-in the city. In media representations of riots, in the recasting (and \"whitening\") of Mexican food as Spanish-American cuisine, in the community displacement that occurred as part of the development of the Staples Center-in telling instances large and small, we see how Los Angeles and its Latino population are mutually transforming. And we see how an old Latino politics of \"racial\" identity is inevitably giving way to a new politics of class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining political and economic insight with trenchant social and cultural analysis, this work offers the clearest statement to date of how ethnicity and class intersect in defining racialized social relations in the contemporary metropolis.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlobalization and Community Series, volume 7\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor M. Valle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816630305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816630301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.91w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2000 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/09\/2000","brand":"Victor M. Valle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202678735103,"sku":"9780816630301","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a52738b-6b06-432c-afcf-beb404f6557b.jpg?v=1756833082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/latino-metropolis-victor-m-valle-9780816630301","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}