A People's Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.'s usual tourist destinations. It documents little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred, and introduces us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media, creating a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions, this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.