A non-exhaustive reading and research BIBLIOGRAPHY for THE PERISHING:

LOS ANGELES, WORLD HISTORY

Bound for Freedom by Dr. Douglas Flamming

American Indians and Route 66 produced by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association

Just Mahalia, Baby by Laurraine Goreau

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights by the Japanese American National Museum

The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850-1930 by Robert M. Fogelson

Deadly Times by Lew Irwin

Making Black Los Angeles by Marne L. Campbell

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

African Americans in Los Angeles by Karin L. Stanford, Ph.D

Lost Los Angeles by Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos

Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angeles, by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

The Irish American by J. Dolan

Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles by Gene Aguilera

Los Angeles’s Central Avenue Jazz by Sean J. O’Connell

The Negro Motorist Green-Book by Victor H. Green

If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

City of Quartz by Mike Davis

The Nice and the Good, by Iris Murdoch

The China Mystique by Karen J. Leong

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History by Sucheng Chan

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang

Anna May Wong by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Chinese Women Yesterday and Today by Florence Ayscough

The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance by Rita Barnard

In the Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck by David D. Buck.

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Colony of Eritea from its Origins until March 1, 1899 by Beniamino Melli

The Los Angles Times

Specifically, BOYLE HEIGHTS

Stories inspired by photos from:

Shades of L.A. Archives/The Los Angeles Public Library

Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

Autry National Center/Southwest Museum, Los Angeles

Jewish Historical Society of Southern California

Japanese American National Museum

Stories in: Images of America, Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights by the Japanese American National Museum

And, www.boyleheightshistoryblog.blogspot.com

OTHER:

The Holy Bible. References to being “taken up” are from Enoch in Gen 5:21–24, Elijah in 2 Kings 2:1-11, inspired also by the abrupt end of the Apostle Paul’s story concluding  Acts 28.

And, a myriad of personal interviews, old letters from the 1920s and 1930s, and other texts listed in the Acknowledgements section of The Perishing.

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