Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege

Contents

contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 part one Creating the Foundations of Rural Whiteness, 1900–1960 1 Creating Whiteness through Gentleman Farming 25 2 Narrating Conquest in Local History 61 3 Producing Western Heritage in the Postwar Suburb 85 part two Consolidating Rural Whiteness, 1960–2000 4 Protecting Rurality through Horse-Keeping in the Northeast Valley 117 5 Linking Western Heritage and Environmental Justice in the West Valley 147 part three Rural Whiteness in the Twenty-first Century 6 Urban Restructuring and the Consolidation of Rural Whiteness 185 7 Beliefs about Landscape, Anxieties about Change 205 8 “Rural Culture” and the Politics of Multiculturalism 231 Conclusion 264 Notes 271 Bibliography 299 Index 311 This page intentionally left blank ...