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.