Before L.A. Quotes

“I understand Los Angeles as a space where “real and imagined narratives overlap” in ways that disrupt both either/or dichotomies (Spanish or Indian, Mexican or American, Brown or White) and “linear historical understandings of this place and its people.”22”
― David Samuel Torres-Rouff, Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894