Current Issue
Vol. 48, No. 2 Spring 2009
"Los Angeles and the Urban West"
Editor: Kenneth Marcus
ARTICLES
THE WESTERN FORUM: Los Angeles: Changing City, City of Change. Page 3.
Abraham Hoffman
Introduction: Los Angeles and the Urban West. Page 11.
Kenneth H. Marcus
Cities of the Imagination. Page 14.
D.J. Waldie
Survival and Renewal: Gospel Music in Black Los Angeles. Page 19.
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
A Look at Pasadena: Bungalows and Community-Building. Page 28.
Ann Scheid
Notes from the Margins: Graffiti, Community, and Enviornment in Los Angeles. Page 35.
Susan A. Phillips
A Twentieth Century Burned-Over District. Page 43.
Mark Wild
A Batlle Transplanted: Southern California's White Churches, Black Press, and the 1920's Ku Klux Klan. Page 50.
Daniel Cady
Everywhere Here Is Holy: A Meditation on the Sacred Geography of Los Angeles. Page 58.
J. Michael Walker
Challenges Into Opportunities: The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Southern California. Page 62.
Gloria R. Lothrop
Creating a Musical Community: The Founding of the Hollywood Bowl. Page 68.
Kenneth H. Marcus
ABOUT THE WEST: It Didn't Start with Proposition 187: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nativist Legislation in California. Page 76.
Glen Gendzel
REVIEW ESSAY: Greed in Fiction: The Great Depression as Seen in Askew's Harpsong. Page 86.
Kenneth Hada
BOOKS FOR THE WESTERN LIBRARY. Page 88.
ANNOUNCEMENTS. Page 101.
INDEX. Page 102.