Los Angeles

Name: Los Angeles
Author: David Rieff
ISBN: 0671671707

by David Rieff (2000)

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In this book, the author looks at L.A., that incarnation of the American dream, and finds the place and the fantasy radically transformed by the new immigrants from Asia and Latin America, who have been arriving in the millions, both legally and illegally, over the past twenty years. What is happening right now in Los Angeles is nothing less than the most visible manifestation of the greatests story of the late twentieth century, the author notes, the movement of the colored peoples of the world into the white world, and in the U.S., the transformation of the country from an anthology of Europe to an anthology of the peoples of the entire planet.

Setting / LocationNew York City

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreLos Angeles Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Civilization Ethnic relations Minorities New York Times reviewed Condiciones económicas Modern Era

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