| Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California Contributor(s): De Lara, Juan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520289587 ISBN-13: 9780520289581 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 330.979 |
| LCCN: 2017048921 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority-nonwhite state. In Inland Shift, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California's logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods, to examine how modern capitalism was shaped by and helped to transform the region's geographies of race and class. While logistics provided a roadmap for capital and the state to transform Southern California, it also created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups who argued that commodity distribution exposed them to economic and environmental precarity. |