{"product_id":"a-peoples-guide-to-orange-county-volume-4-9780520299955","title":"A People's Guide to Orange County: Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, \u003ci\u003ePlanetizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA People's Guide to Orange County\u003c\/i\u003e is an alternative tour guide that documents sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and transformation in Orange County, California. Orange County is more than the well-known images on orange crate labels, the high-profile amusement parks of Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, or the beaches. It is also a unique site of agricultural and suburban history, political conservatism in a liberal state, and more diversity and discordance than its pop-cultural images show. It is a space of important agricultural labor disputes, segregation and resistance to segregation, privatization and the struggle for public space, politicized religions, Cold War global migrations, vibrant youth cultures, and efforts for environmental justice. Memorably, Ronald Reagan called Orange County the place \"where all the good Republicans go to die,\" but it is also the place where many working-class immigrants have come to live and work in its agricultural, military-industrial, and tourist service economies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Orange County is the fifth-most populous county in America. If it were a city, it would be the nation's third-largest city; if it were a state, its population would make it larger than twenty-one other states. It attracts 42 million tourists annually. Yet Orange County tends to be a chapter or two squeezed into guidebooks to Los Angeles or Disneyland. Mainstream guidebooks focus on Orange County's amusement parks and wealthy coastal communities, with side trips to palatial shopping malls. These guides skip over Orange County's most heterogeneous half--the inland space, where most of its oranges were grown alongside oil derricks that kept the orange groves heated. Existing guidebooks render invisible the diverse people who have labored there. \u003ci\u003eA People's Guide to Orange County \u003c\/i\u003equestions who gets to claim Orange County's image, exposing the extraordinary stories embedded in the ordinary landscape. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Lewinnek\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Working Man's Reward: Chicago's Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustavo Arellano\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, former editor of \u003ci\u003eOC Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of the books \u003ci\u003eOrange County: A Personal History, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTaco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e¡Ask A Mexican!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThuy Vo Dang\u003c\/b\u003e is curator for the Southeast Asian Archive at University of California, Irvine, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eVietnamese in Orange County\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613167423762,"sku":"9780520299955","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f133814-ad36-4373-adad-622ff698755d.jpg?v=1732388650","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-peoples-guide-to-orange-county-volume-4-9780520299955","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}