The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

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The Folklore of the Freeway This page intentionally left blank The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City ERIC AVILA A Quadrant Book University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance provided for the publication of this book from the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Portions of this book were originally published in “The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Identity, and Culture in Postwar Los Angeles,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998); copyright Regents of the University of California; published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press; reprinted with permission; and in “East Side Stories: Freeways and Their Portraits in Chicano L.A.,” Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 83–97; copyright 2007 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; reprinted courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press. Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Avila, Eric. The folklore of the freeway : race and revolt in the modernist city / Eric Avila. (A Quadrant book) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-8073-3 (pb) ISBN 978-0-8166-8072-6 (hc) 1. Express highways—Social aspects—United States. 2. Urban planning—United States. I. Title. HE355.3.E94A95 2014 303.48'320973—dc23 2014001571 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new, more collaborative model of research and publication. http://quadrant.umn.edu Sponsored by the Quadrant Design, Architecture, and Culture group (advisory board: John Archer, Ritu Bhatt, Marilyn DeLong, Katherine Solomonson) and by the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Quadrant is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. To Ryan and Eric Avila This page intentionally left blank ...