| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past. By William Deverell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx, 330 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21869-8.)

Los Angeles weighs heavily on both the physical and imaginary landscapes. Its history is as fabled as it is complex, and nowhere is this more true than with the city's relationship to its Mexican population. William Deverell meticulously illuminates several episodes in which Anglo-American Angelinos evolved a particular set of ideas about Mexicans, people at once associated with the city's founding and its newest, and most foreign, denizens. As the subtitle accurately portrays, the author's intent is to analyze not so much what Mexicans did, but what Anglos made of them, how they began "manipulating the Mexican past and the Mexican population in countless ways" (p. 251).

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