Urban Spaces of American Indians in the Exiles

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ID4491859
AuthorsDick G Winchell (Professor of urban and regional planning at Eastern Washington University, Spokane, Washington 99202; [].), Leo E Zonn (The University of Texas at Austin), Leo Zonn (Professor of geography at the University of Texas‐Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; [].)
Year2012
Volume102
Issue2
Pages149-165
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00140.x
OpenAlexW2004597869
LanguageEN
References cited16

Released in 1961, The Exiles is a low‐budget docudrama that chronicles the lives of three American Indians over a period of twelve hours in a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood in the late 1950s. Contemporary neorealist filmmaking appears to have influenced the film, whereas itsg narrative is ethnographic in form. An examination of the film and its dialogue reveals the ways in which American Indians who recently migrated from their reservation to the city have socially constructed the urban spaces within the framework of the physical setting provided to them. The nature of the engagements of the male and female protagonists with the sites and with other American Indians in this small urban sphere provides substantive clues to the nature and level of their respective transitions into the realm of the white‐dominated society of Los Angeles and beyond

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