![]() ![]() ![]() in the Sixties, the definitive treatment of the resistance against oppression and war by the “other LA” and their protest movements in the long 1960s (1960 to the mid-1970s). This is not a problem with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s monumental Set the Night on Fire: L.A. In the process, such coverage misses the molecular and less visible social and political forces that precede them and that explain their evolution and impact. Such news is not necessarily motivated by a concern for the poverty, homelessness, xenophobia, and racism those groups live under, but rather by the potential for mass protests and riots to break out, as they have throughout the city’s history. The vision of sun-drenched Los Angeles, the land of the forever young, tanned white beautiful people drinking and partying at the beach, so popularized by Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.,” has from time to time been punctured by the much less rosy news appearing in the media about the doings of the city’s working-class population living on the other side of the tracks. ![]() ![]() in the Sixties, by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (Verso, 2020). ![]()
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