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La Fiesta, the history parade, and the legions of stories told over the intervening century have maintained a facade that covers nineteenth-century Los Angeles’s complicated past, obscuring a world in which various people and their
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“I understand Los Angeles as a space where “real and imagined narratives overlap” in ways that disrupt both either/or dichotomies (Spanish or Indian, Mexican or American, Brown or White) and “linear historical understandings of this place and its people.”22”
― Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
― Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
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