Los Angeles
Capital of the Third World
by David Rieff
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.
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Los Angeles: capital of the third world
1993, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1857990366 9781857990362
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Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World
September 1, 1992, Touchstone
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0671792105 9780671792107
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"It had been more than twenty-five years since I had last spent more than a few consecutive weeks in Southern California."
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