This premiere edition of Southwest Noir blends the talents of graphic artist Vince Larue with a varied group of Southwest writers in a unique collection of tales from the dark side.

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

Racism has been central to the way that the city of Los Angeles--and all US cities--have formed and grown. There is a long, ugly history of state-supported segregation, the violent local defence of white neighbourhood and racial boundaries with continuing police oppression, ever growing political and economic inequalities, the drive to neoliberalization and privatisation, and today's mass displacement of communities of colour in central areas--a process too often described as incidental. This book attempts to explain...