City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

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261 N O T E S introduction 1. Steven P. Erie, Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006), 79–80. 2. Ibid., 11–12. 3. Vernon Shetley, “Incest and Capital in ‘Chinatown,’” Modern Language Notes 114 (December 1999): 1098. 4. Michel Foucault, “Governmentality,” in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality , with Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault, ed. Graham Burcell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 102–3. 5. The echoes of Foucault’s late work you hear are not accidental. I admit taking creative license with his work on the geology of knowledge, literary genealogy, discipline, and bio-power, which “Governmentality” tries to integrate. You may also hear echoes of Stuart Hall’s critiques of media representation. I tried, via my self-induced susceptibilities, to suggest that we may understand more of these works than we realize, that we need them to make sense of our savage time. 6. Victor M. Valle and Alan Maltun, “Called to Account: Money Laundering at Bank Proved to Be Flaw in Stafford Scheme,” Los Angeles Times, San Gabriel Valley ed., April 11, 1985, pp. 1, 7; Cecilia Rasmussen, “Community Profile: City of Industry,” Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1995, p. B4. 7. San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, “San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California: 2006 Economic Overview and Forecast” (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, November 2006), 4. 8. Stephanie Chavez, “Los Angeles: Montebello Residents Sound Off about Trains,” Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2004, p. B3; Ronald D. White, “Growing Problems Give Ports a Bad Reputation,” Los Angeles Times, home ed., May 4, 2005, p. C1; South Coast Air Quality Management District, “Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study (MATES II): Final Report” (Diamond Bar, Calif., March 2000, chap. 7, p. 1). 9. Ian Hart, ed., “Paying with Our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California” (Oakland, Calif.: Pacific Institute, November 2006), 28. 10. Dan Morain and Victor Valle, “City of Industry Founder Indicted in Kickback Case,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1984, p. B14. 11. Charles L. Ponce de Leon, Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 22–24. 12. Ben Baeder, “City’s Big Deal,” San Gabriel Valley Tribune, accessed on July 3, 2008, from http://www.sgvtribune.com/rds_search/ci_9733568?IADID=Search-www .sgvtribune.com-www.sgvtribune.com. chapter 1 — his theater of shame 1. “Complainant Masks Her Face: Book-keeper Formally Accuses Man,” Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1929, p. A2. 2. Marc Wild, Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early TwentiethCentury Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 38. 3. “Mystery Added to Kidnap Case: New Evidence Presented by EmployerSuspect ,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday, March 28, 1929, p. A2. 4. People of the State of California v. Clayton C. Stafford, case no. 278,394, Los Angeles Superior Court, May 15, 1929. 5. David Paul Nord, Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 32–34. 6. Lisa M. Cuklanz, Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 17–18. 7. Ibid.,19, 23–24. 8. “Riot at Fatty’s Café Holds 5: Four Men and Woman Seized after Battle, 2 Face Serious Charges,” Los Angeles Evening Express, May 21, 1929, p. 3. 9. David A. Yallop, The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle (New York: St. Martin’s, 1976), 279. 10. “Aimee Case Is Declared Dead,” Los Angeles Evening Express, May 2, 1929, p. 2. 11. Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal during the Roaring Twenties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 248 12. Dennis McDougal, Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty, (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2001), 98. 13. Yallop, The Day the Laughter Stopped, 279. 14. “Rich Altadenan up in Girl Case: Stafford, Accused by Girl in Attack Case, Beat Up Rev. Shuler,” Los Angeles Evening Express, October 28, 1929, p. 7. 15. Mark Sumner Still, “‘Fighting Bob’ Shuler: Fundamentalist and Reformer” (Ph.D. diss., Claremont Graduate School, 1988), 145. 16. Ibid., 143. 262 notes to pages 9–20 17. “Rich Altadenan up in Girl Case,” 7. 18...