{"id":34148,"date":"2013-10-08T18:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34148"},"modified":"2013-10-08T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:50:22","slug":"garcetti-new-los-angeles-mayor-reflects-changing-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34148","title":{"rendered":"Garcetti, New Los Angeles Mayor, Reflects Changing City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/08\/us\/garcetti-new-los-angeles-mayor-reflects-changing-city.html\" target=\"_blank\">Garcetti, New Los Angeles Mayor, Reflects Changing City<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Medina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 He is Jewish. He is Latino. He can break dance and play jazz piano. He speaks nearly impeccable Spanish. He has talked longingly about growing his own vegetables and maybe even raising his own chickens. He lives on this city\u2019s hip east side.<\/p>\n<p>Three months into office, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Garcetti\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Eric Garcetti<\/a> seems to embody a host of ethnic, ideological and cultural strains that are transforming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>. At the same time, he is avoiding any temptation of red carpet glamour here, a striking change from his predecessor, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Villaraigosa\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Villaraigosa<\/a>, who came in as mayor riding a powerful wave of popularity but left with decidedly less regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some ways everything I have done has prepared me for this job,\u201d Mr. Garcetti said recently in his still mostly barren City Hall office, which he plans to decorate with local historical memorabilia. \u201cGoverning Los Angeles is all about cultural literacy \u2014 nobody can be completely literate across the board here, but if you don\u2019t have some understanding of many of those cultures, you will be left behind.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But while many of the city\u2019s most powerful Latino politicians, including Mr. Villaraigosa, were raised in such immigrant enclaves, Mr. Garcetti grew up in the well-heeled San Fernando Valley. Early in the campaign, he faced pointed comments from other elected officials, including the speaker of the State Assembly, that questioned his Latino credentials. Even now, without the pressure of campaigning, he is not given to wax philosophical about his identity. <strong>\u201cThere was all this craziness about, \u2018What are you?&#8217; \u201d he said. \u201cI am what I am, as Popeye would say. I think we are all tired of that conversation.\u201d&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/08\/us\/garcetti-new-los-angeles-mayor-reflects-changing-city.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garcetti, New Los Angeles Mayor, Reflects Changing City The New York Times 2013-10-07 Jennifer Medina LOS ANGELES \u2014 He is Jewish. He is Latino. He can break dance and play jazz piano. He speaks nearly impeccable Spanish. He has talked longingly about growing his own vegetables and maybe even raising his own chickens. 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