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Review "An exuberant, relevatory joy ride through the best part of town. The first book on Los Angeles that Walt Whitman could sing along with." -- Mike Davis Product Description Urban Latino Cultures seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to address and examine issues of Latino identity and representation in Los Angeles. The contributors write from a wide variety of disciplines including geography, performance art, and literary criticism. All confront issues of Latino urban identity and the production of Los Angeles social space in their work.