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George, Lynell. "Walking East of West LA." Boom 1, no. 2 (2011): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2011.1.2.17.

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The Los Angeles locales photographer Kevin McCollister takes you to the places you can’t buy a ticket to. His blog and book project that grew out of it, East of West L.A., tells a different L.A. story — one that is subtler, nuanced and found only through patience. McCollister takes in the city by foot, armed with two cameras. Sometimes observing more than actually documenting. The city that emerges within these frames isn’t the one of iconic palm streets, expensive cars, expansive civic-center vistas — but one that lives in the shadows of our imagination. Workaday strivers, lost-people, forgotten emotional territories. The work tells us stories about the space between the L.A. dream and reality. While McCollister is certainly “documenting” Los Angeles — his images evoke something more chambered — internal, contemplative, elegantly transitory. They play like memory and fantasy fused and evoke a Los Angeles that feels personal: one that’s private, but not exclusive. The images open a window on an unexpected L.A., contradictory, complex, and elusive as the city is itself.

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Bon, Lauren. "The Boom Interview." Boom 5, no. 2 (2015): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2015.5.2.28.

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Lauren Bon is a transformative figure. Through her work with the Metabolic Studio and as a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation, she examines a handful of enormous and intersecting questions about Los Angeles, the American West, the way we think about landscapes, our water and where it comes from, what we owe the land and communities, and our moral, economic, and political relationships. In this interview she discusses her work, including recent and forthcoming projects such as Not A Cornfield, 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and Bending the River Back into the City—the waterwheel she plans to build for a spur of the Los Angeles River that will sit adjacent to her studio on the edge of Los Angeles’s Chinatown.

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Johnson, Lorin, and Donald Bradburn. "Fleeing the Soviet Union, Dancing on the West Coast." Experiment 20, no. 1 (2014): 297–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211730x-12341266.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles audiences saw Soviet defectors Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, Natalia Makarova, and Rudolf Nureyev in the prime of their careers at the Hollywood Bowl, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Greek Theater. Dance photographer Donald Dale Bradburn, a local Southern California dancer describes his behind-the-scenes access to these dancers in this interview. Perfectly positioned as Dance Magazine’s Southern California correspondent, Bradburn offers a candid appraisal of the Southern California appeal for such high-power Russian artists as well as their impact on the arts of Los Angeles. An intimate view of Russian dancers practicing their craft on Los Angeles stages, Bradburn’s interview is illustrated by fourteen of his photographs, published for the first time in this issue of Experiment.

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Hallett, Hilary A. "Based on a True Story: New Western Women and the Birth of Hollywood." Pacific Historical Review 80, no. 2 (2011): 177–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2011.80.2.177.

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This article explores early publicity about Hollywood that promoted Los Angeles as a New West supporting a New Western Woman who became a key, if often slighted, element in the “grounding of modern feminism.” The New Western Woman was both an image that sought to attract more women into movie audiences and a reality that dramatized the unconventional and important roles played by women workers in the early motion picture industry. By describing these women as expertly navigating the city, the West, and professional ambitions simultaneously, this publicity created a booster literature that depicted Los Angeles as an urban El Dorado for single white women on the make. In response, tens of thousands of women moved west to work in the picture business, helping to make Los Angeles the first western boomtown where women outnumbered men.

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Hobel, Calvin J., Michael G. Ross, Rose L. Bemis, et al. "The West Los Angeles Preterm Birth Prevention Project." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 170, no. 1 (1994): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9378(13)70280-1.

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ROSS, MICHAEL G., MEENU SANDHU, ROSE BEMIS, SHARON NESSIM, ROBERT J. BRAGONIER, and CALVIN HOBEL. "The West Los Angeles Preterm Birth Prevention Project." Obstetrics & Gynecology 83, no. 4 (1994): 506–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006250-199404000-00004.

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Wilkinson, Cheryl L. "The Soldiers’ City." Southern California Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2013): 188–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2013.95.2.188.

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The Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, a domicile and hospital for Union veterans of the Civil War, opened west of Los Angeles in 1888 on land donated by real-estate developers. Barrett Villa Tract, a development of small plots later renamed Sawtelle, was established outside the south gate of the Soldiers’ Home. There veterans bought homes where they could “live out” and enjoy family life while continuing to avail themselves of the services of the Pacific Branch. Sawtelle incorporated as a city in 1906 but consolidated with Los Angeles in 1922. Issues of Pacific Branch members’ votes, behavior, and community leadership mark Sawtelle’s history. Union veterans played a significant role in the development of West Los Angeles.

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Kale, Shelly. "Spotlight." California History 91, no. 4 (2014): 67–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2014.91.4.67.

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In 1932–33, the German geologist and urban geographer Anton Wagner conducted a “geographical investigation” of Los Angeles. Wagner had become interested in Los Angeles in 1925–26, when a visit provided a firsthand view of the city’s rapid development following World War I. Now, on this second trip, he would conduct “my own thorough observation of Los Angeles” to explain the area’s phenomenal growth and how “the cultural forces of the far West manifest themselves in this urban landscape.”

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Fine, D. "Nathanael West, Raymond Chandler, and the Los Angeles Novel." California History 68, no. 4 (1989): 196–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25158537.

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Johnson, Maxwell. "Borderlands Fortress." Pacific Historical Review 86, no. 2 (2017): 258–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2017.86.2.258.

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Focusing on the World War I era, this article examines Harry Chandler’s Los Angeles Times and William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner. It argues that these two rival newspapers urged a particular urban identity for Los Angeles during World War I. If Los Angeles was to become the capital of the American West, the papers demanded that real and rhetorical barriers be constructed to protect the city from a dual Japanese-Mexican menace. While federal officials viewed the border as a line to be maintained, Chandler and Hearst feared it. Los Angeles needed to be a borderlands fortress. After the war, the two newspapers ably transitioned into an editorial style that privileged progress over preparedness. This paper reveals that the contested narrative of progress, based in transnational concerns, was crucial to the city’s early and ultimate development.

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Jones, L., and E. Hauksson. "The Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake of October 1, 1987—Seismology." Earthquake Spectra 4, no. 1 (1988): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1585464.

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The October 1, 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake ( ML = 5.9) was located at 34° 3.0′N, 118° 4.8′W, at the northwestern end of the Puente Hills. The sequence ruptured a small part, 4 km by 5 km, of a previously unidentified, buried, thrust fault that strikes east-west and dips 25° down to the north. This fault may be part of a large system of thrust faults extending across the entire east-west length of the northern margin of the Los Angeles basin. The focus of the mainshock is deep, at 14 ± 1 km. The largest aftershock ( ML = 5.3) produced mostly strike-slip movement on a steeply dipping, northwest plane, that bounds the mainshock rupture area to the west. Enhancement of the Los Angeles basin seismic network would facilitate investigation of the potential of these faults for moderate-sized or large earthquakes.

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Brady, Amy. "“They're sufferin' the same things we're sufferin'”: Ideology and Racism in the Federal Theatre Project'sThe Sun Rises in the West." Theatre Survey 56, no. 1 (2014): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557414000568.

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Myth hides nothing: its function is to distort.—Roland BarthesIn Los Angeles, California, the home of the nation's second largest Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a group of FTP artists spent over a year developingThe Sun Rises in the West, a popular and critically well-received but forgotten play about the Dust Bowl migration and its effects on California's agricultural valleys. The play was mounted by the Southwest Theatre Unit (SWTU), an experimental branch of the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project that worked as a collective to produce plays independently of the FTP's more mainstream endeavors. The SWTU attracted ample publicity during the latter half of the 1930s for its experimental, politically charged material, but because the group's artistic record has been buried for decades in government and university archives, much critical work remains to be done on its contributions to theatre history. This essay seeks to remedy this gap with a brief sketch of the SWTU as an avant-garde force in Los Angeles and an analysis of the SWTU's original play,The Sun Rises in the West.

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Smethurst, J. E. "Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles." Journal of American History 97, no. 4 (2011): 1159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaq112.

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Armenta, Amada. "Creating Community: Latina Nannies in a West Los Angeles Park." Qualitative Sociology 32, no. 3 (2009): 279–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-009-9129-1.

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Beadie, Nancy, Joy Williamson-Lott, Michael Bowman, et al. "Gateways to the West, Part I: Education in the Shaping of the West." History of Education Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2016): 418–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hoeq.12209.

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In 1950, theDenver Catholic Registerpublished an article describing and challenging the varieties of “prejudice” that a military pilot moving from base to base in the United States might encounter. To “successfully transact business” in the vicinity of various “metropolitan landing fields,” the writer admonished, the veteran must:Remember to be not too sanguine about people of Oriental ethnic origin when talking with a merchant in Seattle, that he must speak about the Jew with a slight sneer in Eastern cities, that the Colored person must be “kept in his place” in Houston, that in reservation country the Indian must be treated as a man would treat a child and that in the San Antonio-Los Angeles-Denver triangle it is wiser to remember that the Mexican-American is a second-class citizen.

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Zappia, Natale. "Map Room." California History 91, no. 4 (2014): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2014.91.4.4.

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In the minds of Californians, then, Mulholland’s aqueduct represents a historical pivot; a before-and-after event when farmers lost and the city won; a moment when Los Angeles began to soak the desert with water and populate it with people. The idea that the city is an actual desert disguised by uninhibited water theft has permeated the minds of policy makers and popular culture (i.e. “Chinatown”) for so long that it is hard to rectify the map above with the “genesis myth” of the Owens River Aqueduct. Yet, in the minds of engineers in 1888 (when the population of Los Angeles stood at around 50,000—roughly half the size of Santa Monica today), Los Angeles—particularly West Los Angeles, was anything but a parched landscape. This map, in fact, reveals an incredibly complex series of patchworks containing irrigation lines (both newly constructed and older Rancho era Zanjas), “moist areas,” pipelines, washes, creeks, streams, swamps, rivers, canals, wells, and of course, the large and still wild Los Angeles River.

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Tejani, James. "Dredging the Future." Southern California Quarterly 96, no. 1 (2014): 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2014.96.1.5.

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Modern Los Angeles and Southern California emerged through the utilization and development of its coastal estuaries and wetlands, which became possible only at the turn of the twentieth century with the advent of new industrial machinery. The interaction between technology and environment in turn shaped city makers’ and residents’ vision of possibility, opportunity, and urgency as they looked out from Los Angeles to a changing West, nation, and world. While historians are familiar with the political and social conflict and cultural shifts that propelled Los Angeles and Southern California’s development as a metropolis, this article proposes that the region’s development is also due to the interplay of land and water, of mud and machine, and of transforming human perceptions of distance and connection.

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Little, Todd D., Takahiro Miyashita, Mayumi Karasawa, et al. "The links among action-control beliefs, intellective skill, and school performance in Japanese, US, and German school children." International Journal of Behavioral Development 27, no. 1 (2003): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650250244000001.

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We compared the relationships among action-control beliefs, intellective skill, and actual school performance in samples of children from Tokyo ( n = 817, grades 2-6), Los Angeles ( n = 657), and West Berlin ( n = 517). Although these samples have been utilised in other comparative studies we have conducted, the role and function of intellective skill, as measured by the Raven Progressive Matrices, has not before been examined. The results of our analyses predicting school performance from the action-control beliefs and the Raven scores were quite revealing. The amount of variance in actual school performance that was shared with (1) the children's action-control beliefs and (2) their Raven scores was very high in West Berlin (86%) and Tokyo (73%), but very low in Los Angeles (37%). These outcomes strengthen arguments that the comparatively high levels of personal agency, but low correlations with performance, are distinctive characteristics of US socioeducational contexts.

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Zetterman, Eva. "The PST Project, Willie Herrón’s Street Mural Asco East of No West (2011) and the Mural Remix Tour: Power Relations on the Los Angeles Art Scene." Culture Unbound 6, no. 3 (2014): 671–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146671.

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This article departs from the huge art-curating project Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980, a Getty funded initiative running in Southern California from October 2011 to April 2012 with a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. One of the Pacific Standard Time (PST) exhibitions was Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987, running from September to December 2011 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This was the first retrospective of a conceptual performance group of Chicanos from East Los Angeles, who from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s acted out critical interventions in the politically contested urban space of Los Angles. In conjunction with the Asco retrospective at LACMA, the Getty Foundation co-sponsored a new street mural by the Chicano artist Willie Herrón, paying homage to his years in the performance group Asco. The PST exhibition program also included so-called Mural Remix Tours, taking fine art audiences from LACMA to Herrón’s place-specific new mural in City Terrace in East Los Angeles. This article analyze the inclusion in the PST project of Herrón’s site-specific mural in City Terrace and the Mural Remix Tours to East Los Angeles with regard to the power relations of fine art and critical subculture, center and periphery, the mainstream and the marginal. As a physical monument dependent on a heavy sense of the past, Herrón’s new mural, titled Asco: East of No West, transforms the physical and social environment of City Terrace, changing its public space into an official place of memory. At the same time, as an art historical monument officially added to the civic map of Los Angeles, the mural becomes a permanent reminder of the segregation patterns that still exist in the urban space of Los Angeles.

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Johnson, Lorin. "Degrees of Separation: Lester Horton’s." Experiment 20, no. 1 (2014): 48–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211730x-12341259.

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This essay examines Lester Horton’s 1937 production of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) at the Hollywood Bowl. In particular, the genesis of the work and the transference of Russian modernism in 1930s Los Angeles is explored. The essay focuses on Horton’s professional relationships with two artists in Los Angeles, Adolph Bolm and Michio Ito, both of whom were in his proximity as teachers, mentors and colleagues when he created Le Sacre. The Russian émigré Bolm, a former dancer with the Ballets Russes during the period Nijinsky choreographed The Rite of Spring in 1913, was a well-established teacher and choreographer in Los Angeles. Bolm’s and Horton’s parallel interests in American Indian dance forms are discussed. Ito, the Japanese dancer and choreographer who was inspired to pursue dance after witnessing performances of the Ballets Russes, trained in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Hellerau before settling in Los Angeles in 1929. Horton’s production of Le Sacre, the seventh created internationally and first West Coast version is discussed in detail, drawing on the choreographer’s rehearsal notes and other first-hand accounts.

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Fujita-Rony, Dorothy. "Gender, Migration, and the U.S. West." Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 2 (2016): 255–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2016.85.2.255.

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This article analyzes Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Ernesto Galarza’s Barrio Boy in tandem with Angeles Monrayo’s Tomorrow’s Memories. While both America Is in the Heart and Barrio Boy are considered foundational texts in ethnic studies, Tomorrow’s Memories (which offers Monrayo’s personal reflections about life as a Filipina in Hawai‘i and California during the 1920s) is less well known. Each of these books highlights a young narrator who is migrating under U.S. empire. Their narratives underscore the protagonists’ constant movement through the U.S. West in the search for labor and education, their growing independence from the core family unit, as well as their evolving political consciousness. A comparison of the books enables us to consider how gender shapes migration, place, and space, especially because Monrayo’s experience illuminates the male privilege of Bulosan’s and Galarza’s protagonists.

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Elkind, Sarah S. "Environmental Inequality and the Urbanization of West Coast Watersheds." Pacific Historical Review 75, no. 1 (2006): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2006.75.1.53.

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In the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Los Angeles, urban development decreased the poor's access to water and marine resources. Modernization in these cities either reduced services to the poor and to ethnic minorities, be they Native Americans,Asian Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or diminished these groups' ability to supplement their incomes by fishing or foraging. Industrial development, shipping channels, and sewers all contributed to a larger pattern of environmental racism and environmental inequity in the United States. This forum contributes to the study of environmental justice by exploring how marginalized peoples adapted to urban growth and the reallocation of resources in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Zhang, WJ. "Center for East-West Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles." Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine 6, no. 10 (2008): 1094–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3736/jcim20081023.

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Maddox and Cooley. "“The Benares of the West”: The Evolution of Yoga in Los Angeles." Journal of Sport History 46, no. 1 (2019): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.46.1.0082.

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Kwan, Jennifer L., Susanne Kluh, William K. Reisen, and Minoo B. Madon. "West Nile Virus Emergence and Persistence in Los Angeles, California, 2003–2008." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83, no. 2 (2010): 400–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0076.

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Baumohl, Jim. "Maintaining Orthodoxy: The Depression-Era Struggle over Morphine Maintenance in California." Contemporary Drug Problems 27, no. 1 (2000): 17–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090002700103.

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With the closure of the Shreveport Clinic in 1923, the United States entered a 40-year period during which legal opiate maintenance was limited to a small number of registered medical addicts, most of them cancer patients. Addicts were demonized, hounded by law enforcement personnel, and rarely treated outside of jails. Abstinence was the only legitimate goal of treatment. Quite correctly, historians regard the period between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s as the Dark Ages of American drug policy. Even so, there was resistance to such therapeutic orthodoxy, notably on the West Coast. Indeed, the Los Angeles County Medical Association sponsored a morphine maintenance clinic during the early 1930s, only to see its doctors arrested and the clinic closed by federal authorities in spite ofprotests by the mayor of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles' director of public health. Relying on new primary sources, this paper chronicles the struggle between California maintenance advocates and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the Great Depression.

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Cayer, Aaron. "Metropolitan Living: The Los Angeles Parklabrea Apartments." Journal of Urban History 45, no. 2 (2018): 354–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144218772297.

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Reflecting a commitment to public service and an interest in abiding investments, life insurance companies after the Second World War were responsible for the construction of an unprecedented number of housing developments across the United States. They were able to help alleviate housing shortages, elevate the standards of postwar housing, and offer new forms of modern living. This article examines the practices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and its developing of Parklabrea (now Park La Brea) in Los Angeles during the 1940s. As the largest housing community west of the Mississippi River, Parklabrea stands prominently in the center of the city, though it is elided in histories of California housing. Against the backdrop of postwar public housing, which failed in part due to a disregard for urban context, Parklabrea’s history reveals how life insurance companies were increasingly attuned to the social, physical, and economic contexts of postwar cities.

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Berger, Rainer, David McJunkin, and Roberta Johnson. "Radiocarbon Concentration of California Aerosols." Radiocarbon 28, no. 2A (1986): 661–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200007864.

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In this study the origin of the carbonaceous fraction of total suspended particles (TSP) in air was analyzed. While the summer data show increasing carbon concentrations in the Los Angeles air basin from west to east, in the winter high levels of carbon particles can be found over the coast. The smallest and most dangerous particle fraction is principally composed of fossil carbon.

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Travis, Charles. "Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and LA Noirscapes." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14, no. 1-2 (2020): 134–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2020.0249.

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Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning counter-western Lonesome Dove (part of a tetralogy, set between 1840 and 1900) and the works of LA Noir detective fiction writers (from the 1940s to 1997) represent the American west and urban southwest of Los Angeles as a dynamic mosaic of human and environmental borderlandscapes. McMurtry's perspective provides an Anglo-European eye, influenced by Cervantean Iberian literary tropes on the transformation of the West from indigenous and Spanish trails to American rail-road tracks. The LA Noirscapes map phenomenologically illustrates how the location of novel settings cluster in contiguous and convergent places on a street grid palimpsest of Los Angeles between 1949 and 1997. Employing HumGIS methods, this essay considers the marriage of empirical cartography and impressionistic topography; the former concerned with latitude, longitude and space, the latter with plotting literary, historical and cultural perceptions and experiences of place. By engaging the concept of Euclidian space with the phenomenology of place, geographers can contextualize field work, and other methods with literary, cartographical and GIS analysis to uncover the means to craft new avenues to study the dynamic and symbiotic formations of historical landscapes, identities, senses of place and location.

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Launius, Roger D., and Jessie L. Embry. "The 1910 Los Angeles Airshow: The Beginnings of Air Awareness in the West." Southern California Quarterly 77, no. 4 (1995): 329–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41171781.

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Kaplan, Jeffrey B., and Galen Cortina. "M1860 Cardia Type Gastritis Is GERD Associated in a West Los Angeles Population." Gastroenterology 136, no. 5 (2009): A—433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(09)61995-8.

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Hung, Yiling. "Infraordinary Ties and Place-Making at a Convenience Store in West Los Angeles." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45, no. 5 (2016): 529–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241615588588.

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Viator, Felicia A. "West Coast Originals: A Case for Reassessing the "Bronx West" Story of Black Youth Culture in 1980s Los Angeles." American Studies 58, no. 3 (2019): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2019.0042.

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Garcia, Antero. "Beautiful Dark Twisted Pedagogy: Kanye West and the Lessons of Participatory Culture." Radical Teacher 97 (October 28, 2013): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2013.38.

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This article builds off of the author’s classroom experience as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles and looks at how cultural shifts with regards to media consumption and production impact liberatory pedagogical practice. Using media superstar Kanye West as a case study, this article argues that today’s classroom practices must expand in ways that reflect a more participatory culture. In particular, West’s marketing and engagement with his audience during the release of his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy highlight how mainstream media practices offer pathways for renewing critical pedagogy in the 21st century.

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Hernández, Kelly Lytle. "Introduction." Pacific Historical Review 88, no. 1 (2019): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2019.88.1.4.

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This article is the guest editor’s introduction to a special issue of Pacific Historical Review titled “The Carceral West.” Whereas scholarship on the carceral state has traditionally focused on the U.S. South, the urban North, and post-war Los Angeles, scholars have more recently begun to focus on the long history of incarceration throughout the U.S. West. The West provides a rich environment for examining the carceral state, especially as it relates to race and immigration. Additional articles in this special issue include Elliott Young on immigrant incarceration at McNeil Federal Penitentiary between 1880 and 1930, Benjamin Madley interpreting the Spanish Mission system as a carceral regime, and Mary Mendoza examining the U.S.-Mexico border fence as a carceral environment that locks undocumented immigrants both in and out.

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Montgomery, Alesia F. "“Living in Each Other's Pockets”: The Navigation of Social Distances by Middle Class Families in Los Angeles." City & Community 5, no. 4 (2006): 425–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2006.00192.x.

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In Hollywood movies and dystopian critiques, Los Angeles is two cities: one wealthy, white, and gated, the other impoverished, dark, and carceral. This depiction verges on caricature, eliding the diversity and maneuvers of the region's middle class. Drawing upon ethnographies of middle class families (black, white, Latino, Asian) in affluent areas of West Los Angeles and the Valley and in the low‐income areas that are located south and east of downtown Los Angeles, I explore how and why, and at what costs, parents engage in daily maneuvers to place their children in beneficial settings across the region's vast sprawl. I describe these maneuvers that resemble a game of “musical chairs” as selective flight. In contrast to middle class flight to the suburbs, selective flight involves diurnal rather than residential shifts. Enabling middle‐class families who reside amidst the crumbling infrastructure of the urban core to chase cultural capital and physical safety in ever‐receding advantaged areas, the post‐Civil Rights State expands spatial mobility yet does not close racial distances. The pursuit of ever‐receding spaces of advantage is particularly paradoxical and burdensome for black middle‐class parents.

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Mayeux, Sara. "“An Honest But Fearless Fighter”: The Adversarial Ideal of Public Defenders in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles." Law and History Review 36, no. 3 (2018): 619–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248018000202.

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Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with the Los Angeles County Public Defender—13 years as a deputy, followed by 19 years as head of the office—and now maintained a small private law practice downtown. Many mornings, Vercoe would have had business at the Hall of Justice, the ten-story box of “gray California granite” that housed the jails and courtrooms. On this particular morning, he was headed instead to Clifton's Cafeteria at Seventh Street and Broadway. Perhaps, as he drove the dozen miles west into the city, he admired the “geraniums, cosmos, sweet peas, asters and marigolds” that lined the “gardens, parkways, and driveways,” or perhaps he was used to the foliage by now. Vercoe had lived in California for more than 30 years, making him, by West Coast standards, a real “old-timer.”

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Moore, Stephanie C. "Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic. The Autry National Center of the American West." Public Historian 35, no. 4 (2013): 76–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2013.35.4.76.

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Stotzer, Rebecca L. "Seeking Solace in West Hollywood: Sexual Orientation-Based Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County." Journal of Homosexuality 57, no. 8 (2010): 987–1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2010.503506.

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Tsui, Irena, Margaret A. Havunjian, John A. Davis, and JoAnn A. Giaconi. "Snapshot of Teleretinal Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy at the West Los Angeles Medical Center." Telemedicine and e-Health 22, no. 10 (2016): 843–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2015.0246.

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Pryor, S. C., and T. E. Hoffer. "A case study of pollutant transport from Los Angeles to the desert South-West." Atmospheric Environment. Part A. General Topics 26, no. 2 (1992): 243–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0960-1686(92)90306-6.

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Puchalski, Adam, Antonio K. Liu, and Byron Williams. "Three Cases of West Nile Encephalitis over an Eight-Day Period at a Downtown Los Angeles Community Hospital." Case Reports in Infectious Diseases 2015 (2015): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/262698.

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Since its introduction in New York City in 1999, the virus has spread throughout the entire North American continent and continues to spread into Central and Latin America. Our report discusses the signs and symptoms, diagnostics, and treatment of West Nile disease. It is important to recognize the disease quickly and initiate appropriate treatment. We present three cases of West Nile encephalitis at White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles that occurred over the span of eight days. All three patients live within four to six miles from the hospital and do not live or work in an environment favorable to mosquitoes including shallow bodies of standing water, abandoned tires, or mud ruts. All the patients were Hispanic. Physicians and other health care providers should consider West Nile infection in the differential diagnosis of causes of aseptic meningitis and encephalitis, obtain appropriate laboratory studies, and promptly report cases to public health authorities. State governments should establish abatement programs that will eliminate sources that allow for mosquito reproduction and harboring. The public needs to be given resources that educate them on what entails the disease caused by the West Nile virus, what the symptoms are, and, most importantly, what they can do to prevent themselves from becoming infected.

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Editor. "Brief report on the January 17 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 27, no. 1 (1994): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.27.1.55-75.

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An earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley on January 17 at 4:30 am. Pacific Standard Time. The epicenter was located at 34°13' North, 118°3' West at a depth of 14.6km. The surface wave magnitude from the National Earthquake Information Centre was 6.6. The local magnitude was 6.4. Most of this information was prepared within a few days of the earthquake occurring and some of the material included in this report was issued as a press release. A more detailed report is currently being prepared by the Reconnaissance Team sent by the Society.

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Berry, Michael David, John Sessions, and Rene Zamora-Cristales. "Subregional Comparison for Forest- to-Product Biomass Supply Chains on the Pacific West Coast, USA." Applied Engineering in Agriculture 34, no. 1 (2018): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aea.12526.

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Abstract. Transportable biomass conversion facilities producing biochar, briquettes, and torrefied wood are modeled and optimized for five different sub-regions within the Pacific Northwest. Subregional case studies in Quincy, California; Lakeview, Oregon; Oakridge, Oregon; Port Angeles, Washington; and Warm Springs, Oregon, are evaluated to characterize the potential economic viability of these novel transportable designs. A mixed integer program is used to characterize the supply chain from residue extraction to market optimizing transportation, production, and plant mobility in order to minimize the supply chain costs. Regional variations including log specifications, energy rates, trucking, and logistic capacities are considered within the model and supporting analyses to differentiate regional costs and market viabilities. It was found that the optimal transportable design included facility movement on a 1 to 2.5 year frequency depending on product and region with biochar being the most likely to be economically viable. Regional feedstock composition and availability was the biggest indicator of lower cost production. Supply chain costs varied by 5%-10% depending on product and region being produced. Transportation and mobilization were found to account for 15%-30% of the overall supply chain cost. Quincy, California, and torrefied wood were found to have the lowest of these costs due to low move frequency and high wood availability while Port Angeles, Washington, with briquettes was the highest. With regards to fuel price sensitivity, torrefied wood was the most sensitive as its conversion process was most energy intensive (±12%-13%) and biochar least sensitive (±3-5%).Transportation accounted for 5% to 30% of the fuel price variation due to diesel prices depending on product and region. When including grid-connectivity, cost reductions were approximately 6%-7% for biochar, 27%-29% for briquettes and 33%-38% for torrefied wood. These findings indicate biochar as the most likely candidate for a transportable conversion system given its relatively low power consumption, high allowable moisture content, and low product transportation cost. Quincy, California, was found to be the most desirable sub region with the lowest overall production costs attributed to its high input quality feedstock and relative accessibility; its higher grid-connected power cost also makes transportable options relatively more attractive than other off-grid locations. Port Angeles, WA had the highest production costs and lowest grid-energy costs. Our results indicate that a rise in diesel price, while incentivizing transportable conversion facilities due to more cost effective transportation, would be more than offset by the higher cost energy consumption during the conversion process when compared with grid-power with the potential exception of biochar. Overall, we see a transportable operation with grid-power would likely be the difference between an economically viable supply chain and one that is not. Keywords: Biomass supply, Biomass products, Facility location, Mixed integer programming, Strategic planning, Transportable plants.

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Lee, Josephine. "East West Players and Asian American Theatre: A Retrospective." Theatre Survey 57, no. 2 (2016): 238–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557416000089.

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The following essays were inspired by talks delivered at the 2015 Association for Asian American Studies annual conference, where we commemorated the fifty years since the 1965 founding of East West Players (EWP) in Los Angeles. Currently led by artistic director Tim Dang, EWP is known as the first and longest-running Asian American theatre company. It has played a crucial part in the training of Asian American actors and the formation of other Asian American theatres across the nation and in the development of new plays and productions that articulate and challenge how “Asian America” is understood and represented. Through reflecting upon the past, present, and future of EWP, our essays contemplate the most significant questions about Asian American theatre practice: how theatre engages the multiple and even contradictory aspects of what is “Asian American,” the panethnic racial category that is consistently challenged by the diverse cultural practices, communities, and identities it purports to describe. EWP's history illustrates the multiple dimensions of how Asian American theatre can challenge the limited prescriptions, labels, and packaging so often used in talking about race both inside and outside the theatre.

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COATES, PETER. "Eastenders Go West: English Sparrows, Immigrants, and the Nature of Fear." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 3 (2005): 431–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805000605.

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The Tortilla Curtain (1995), a novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, juxtaposes the existence of southern California's affluent whites and non-white underclass by relating the stories of two couples whose lives become irrevocably entangled following a fateful automobile accident. The period flavour derives from racial tensions that culminated in the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the passage, two years later, of Proposition 187, a package of prohibitive measures to curb the influx of “undocumented” immigrants from Mexico. Delaney Mossbacher, the book's main character, is a freelance nature writer with orthodox liberal views – a caricatured Sierra Club member. He contributes a monthly, Annie Dillard-esque nature column (“Pilgrim at Topanga Creek”) to an outdoor magazine. He lives in an upscale hilltop community designed in impeccable Spanish mission style – the product of white flight – apparently safe from the Mexican hordes that have broken through the border (the brittle “tortilla curtain” of the novel's title) and are overrunning the flatlands.

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Revels, S., M. Horejs, T. Hughes, and C. Archie. "126 Does West Los Angeles Have Sufficient Primary Care Resources for Its Low-Income Residents?" Journal of Investigative Medicine 54, no. 1 (2006): S101.4—S101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2310/6650.2005.x0004.125.

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Scholzen, Kyle. "“Major League” Goes West: The Effects of Major League Sports on Los Angeles and Seattle." International Journal of Sport and Society 1, no. 1 (2010): 235–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/cgp/v01i01/53923.

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Hobel, Calvin J., Michael G. Ross, Rose L. Bemis, et al. "The West Los Angeles Preterm Birth Prevention Project. I. Program impact on high-risk women." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 170, no. 1 (1994): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9378(94)70384-1.

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Dolan, James F., and Thomas L. Pratt. "High-resolution seismic reflection profiling of the Santa Monica Fault Zone, west Los Angeles, California." Geophysical Research Letters 24, no. 16 (1997): 2051–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/97gl01940.

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