| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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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. xix + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95; £19.95.)

For some time now there have existed two trends in Los Angeles's historiography. One has concentrated on the epic drama of city building and the emergence of a world class metropolis with all its attendant challenges and problems. The other has centered on the Mexican and Chicano history of the city's populations and their marginalization. Whitewashed Adobe brings a fresh perspective to these polarized stories in synthesizing both approaches. William Deverell's thesis is that the transformation of Los Angeles from a small adobe village to a burgeoning commercial city during the period 1848–1930 depended on the whitewashing of Mexican historical and contemporary realities. Whitewashing is the metaphor for hiding, changing, obliterating, and denying. This is a history of the ideo-logical culture of the city builders with an attention to their manipulation of the Mexican people and their culture.

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