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Unmasking L.A.

Third Worlds and the City

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Deepak Narang Sawhney

    1. State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Journey Beyond the Stars

    • Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 1-20

  3. Sanbhashana:

    • Mike Davis, Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 21-46

  4. Satellites of Sorrow

    • Christian Parenti
    Pages 47-66

  5. Five Poems

    • Jimmy Santiago Baca
    Pages 67-76

  6. Mapping the Unfindable

    • Norman M. Klein
    Pages 77-96

  7. Third World and “Illegal” in the City of Angels

    • Joseph Nevins
    Pages 97-116

  8. Deepak on Deepak

    • Deepak Chopra, Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 117-136

  9. Seeing L. A. Anew

    • Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 137-160

  10. This Side of Paradise

    • Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 161-180

  11. Resistance Art in Los Angeles

    • Paul Von Blum
    Pages 181-198

  12. Los Angeles as Metaphor

    • Roger Keil
    Pages 199-212

  13. The Occidental Accident

    • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 213-228

  14. The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy

    • Situationist International
    Pages 229-238

  15. Forces of Nature

    • Deepak Narang Sawhney
    Pages 239-252

  16. The Birth of Los Angeles

    • Morrow Mayo
    Pages 253-260

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 261-266
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Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come to define both the material and spiritual force of American civilization. The American dream is realized, experienced, and lost in the City of Angels. Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, dialogues, and photographs, seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles. It examines the social, political, cultural, and literary climate of the city, bringing together diverse responses to the complexities facing Los Angeles from respected intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mike Davis, Deepak Chopra, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. By uncovering the forces that marginalize Los Angeles's ever-shifting populations into internal third worlds, the collection unmasks the raw contradictions, the grim paradoxes, and the understated ironies of the global city.

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"Here is the first installment, strong and compelling, of the breakthrough analysis Los Angeles has so long deserved ." - Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Deepak Narang Sawhney

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DEEPAK NARANG SAWHNEY is Professor of Philosophy at The Union Institute in Los Angeles, California. He is the editor of Must We Burn Sade? and The Divine Sade.

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