“History Could Save Verdugo Hills Golf Course”: Preservation, Coalition, and Tuna Canyon¹

Jean-Paul deGuzman is a faculty member in the Interracial Dynamics General Education Cluster at UCLA, and was recently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Center for New Racial Studies. His book-in-progress provides an alternative history of Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley to reexamine the nexus of racial activism, the politics of exclusion, and metropolitan development since the Great Depression. He has been published in Amerasia Journal, California History, and the anthology, The Nation and Its Peoples, eds. John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson.