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Irangeles : Iranians in Los Angeles by Ron Kelley; Jonathan Friedlander, co-editor; Anita Colby, associate editor; photography by Ron Kelley is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Following Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of Iranians fled their homeland. For a great number, Los Angeles was their destination, and today more Iranians live there than anywhere else in the world outside of Iran. This compelling collection of photographs, essays, and interviews explores that exodus from Iran and the Iranian presence in Southern California. While capturing the remarkable diversity of this immigrant community, Irangeles also confronts the sprawling metropolis that is increasingly influenced by its large ethnic and immigrant populations. Iranians, too, are inexorably linked to the demographic changes in California--changes that raise questions of assimilation and cultural survival--and that will see minority populations become the majority in the next century. Integrating visual, textual, and oral sources, this book explicates and humanizes the Iranian experience for scholars and general readers alike. We come to know people from a broad range of occupations and income levels, political persuasions, and religious faiths. Supporters of the deposed Pahlavi regime and staunch followers of Khomeini are here, along with other Muslims, Jews, Zoroas

Author

Ron Kelley; Jonathan Friedlander, co-editor; Anita Colby, associate editor; photography by Ron Kelley

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520080089

Subjects

History, Islam, Sociology