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# Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

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Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los  Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of  various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding  diversity bound together by geographic proximity. From street to street,  and from block to block, million dollar homes stand near housing  projects and homeless encampments; and upscale boutiques are just a  short walk from the (in)famous Venice Beach where artists and  carnival performers practice their crafts opposite cafés and ragtag  tourist shops. In Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles,  Andrew Deener invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this  legendary California beach community and the people who live there. In  writing this book, the ethnographer became an insider; Deener lived as a  resident of Venice for close to six years. Here, he brings a scholarly  eye to bear on the effects of gentrification, homelessness, segregation,  and immigration on this community. Through stories from five different  parts of Venice—Oakwood, Rose Avenue, the Boardwalk, the Canals, and  Abbot Kinney Boulevard— Deener identifies why Venice maintained its  diversity for so long and the social and political factors that threaten  it. Drenched in the details of Venice’s transformation, the themes and  explanations will resonate far beyond this one city.  Deener  reveals that Venice is not a single locale, but a collection of  neighborhoods, each with its own identity and conflicts—and he provides a  cultural map infinitely more useful than one that merely shows streets  and intersections. Deener's Venice appears on these pages fully fleshed  out and populated with a stunning array of people. Though the character  of any neighborhood is transient, Deener's work is indelible and this  book will be studied for years to come by scholars across the social  sciences.

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