Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Cindy Forster
Reader 2
Andrew Aisenberg
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Abstract
Los Angeles stands as the largest city in the United States without comprehensive street vending regulation. Over the span of ten years, between 1984 and 1994, street vendor activists challenged Los Angeles to regulate street vending through the work of the Street Vendors Association. Within the same ten years, the city hosted the Olympics; the city introduced broken windows policing; immigration from the global south increased; and, a riot broke out. This thesis explores how Los Angeles’ ambition as a “city of the future” and its Mexican “past” impacted the politics of street vending during this span of time.
Recommended Citation
McKillop, Bryn, ""What Will Become of L.A.?": A History of Street Vendor Criminalization in Los Angeles" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1221.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1221
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
