Laura R. Barraclough is the Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • Claiming State Power in Mid-Twentieth-CenturyLos Angeles2 • Building San Antonio’s Postwar Tourist Economy3 • Creating Multicultural Public Institutionsin Denver and Pueblo4 • Claiming Suburban Public Space and TransformingL.A.’s Racial Geographies5 • Shaping Animal Welfare Laws and BecomingFormal Political SubjectsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This innovative book . . . presents a particularly insightful intervention into [the debate over American national identity]."

Laura R. Barraclough is the Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • Claiming State Power in Mid-Twentieth-CenturyLos Angeles2 • Building San Antonio’s Postwar Tourist Economy3 • Creating Multicultural Public Institutionsin Denver and Pueblo4 • Claiming Suburban Public Space and TransformingL.A.’s Racial Geographies5 • Shaping Animal Welfare Laws and BecomingFormal Political SubjectsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This innovative book . . . presents a particularly insightful intervention into [the debate over American national identity]."

Laura R. Barraclough is the Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • Claiming State Power in Mid-Twentieth-CenturyLos Angeles2 • Building San Antonio’s Postwar Tourist Economy3 • Creating Multicultural Public Institutionsin Denver and Pueblo4 • Claiming Suburban Public Space and TransformingL.A.’s Racial Geographies5 • Shaping Animal Welfare Laws and BecomingFormal Political SubjectsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This innovative book . . . presents a particularly insightful intervention into [the debate over American national identity]."