Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945. (1993). 367 pp. Sides, Josh. L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (2003) Valle, Victor M. and Torres, Rodolfo D. Latino Metropolis. (2000). 249 pp. Waldinger, Roger and Bozorgmehr, Mehdi, eds. Ethnic Los Angeles. (1996). 497 pp. studies by sociologists Policing and law enforcement Felker-Kantor, Max. Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. (2020). Collections of primary sources Caughey, John and LaRee Caughey, eds. Los Angeles: Biography of a City. (1976). 510 pp. short excerpts from primary and secondary sources Diehl, Digby, ed. Front Page: 100 Years of the Los Angeles Times, 1881–1981. (1981). 287 pp. Rodríguez, Luis. Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (1993); autobiographical novel Violence in the CityAn End or a Beginning?, A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965 Official Report online, report on 1965 black riot in Watts; called the "McCone Report" after its chairman Miscellaneous Ethnic Los Angeles The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890–1940 Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, Scott Kurashige Fiction The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (1939) The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939) The Arrangement, Elia Kazan (1967) The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy (1987) Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet (play, 1988) The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh (1948) See also History of Los Angeles List of museums in Los Angeles References External links The Los Angeles Public Library (City) History & Genealogy Department. The Los Angeles Public Library History & Genealogy Department contains significant collections about Los Angeles area history, an archive of Los Angeles area newspapers and magazines, and a photography archive of Los Angeles dating from the 1880s to the present with over 116,000 photos are available online. Los Angeles City Historical Society Bibliography Bibliographies of countries or regions Bibliographies of the United States and territories Bibliographies of cities