{"id":1931,"date":"2018-05-03T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:37:03","slug":"bicycle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/bicycle-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle \/ Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bicycle \/ Race<\/em>\u00a0paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles\u2014and the United States\u2014from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo’s story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist, and co-founding Los Angeles’s hallmark open streets cycling event, CicLAvia,\u00a0along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington, DC, she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation.<\/p>\n

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In the tradition of\u00a0City of Quartz<\/em>,\u00a0this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles, race and class in the United States, and the streets and people around you wherever you live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bicycle \/ Race\u00a0paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles\u2014and the United States\u2014from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo’s… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-now"],"my_excerpt":"Bicycle \/ Race<\/em>\u00a0paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles\u2014and the United States\u2014from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist, and co-founding Los Angeles's hallmark open streets cycling event, CicLAvia,\u00a0along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington, DC, she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation.\r\n

\r\n\r\nIn the tradition of\u00a0City of Quartz<\/em>,\u00a0this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles, race and class in the United States, and the streets and people around you wherever you live.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","my_excerpt_rendered":"

Bicycle \/ Race<\/em>\u00a0paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles\u2014and the United States\u2014from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo’s story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist, and co-founding Los Angeles’s hallmark open streets cycling event, CicLAvia,\u00a0along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington, DC, she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation.<\/p>\n

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In the tradition of\u00a0City of Quartz<\/em>,\u00a0this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles, race and class in the United States, and the streets and people around you wherever you live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}