| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2 | The History Cooperative

City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles. Edited by Martin Schiesl and Mark Morrall Dodge. (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006. v + 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.)
City of Promise's title seemed just that—promising. Unfortunately, however, while some of the individual essays are decent, the book as a whole is poorly conceptualized and edited, with many spelling and grammatical errors, and in no way reflects the exciting and innovative surge of historical scholarship on race and ethnicity in Los Angeles over the last decade.	. . .

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