At the time race did not play a huge factor in the social status but rather through property and power. However, once the U.S. obtained California the customs soon also replaced the Spanish culture. Professor Torres- Rouff showed the change of L.A in his lecture “Space, Identity, and Public Power in Nineteenth Century Los Angeles”. He showed that of the time white people defined space and a place and created boundaries that distinguished the races. This was also possible because of the time most of the people who had public power were white majority. Rouff defines public power as “A set of ideas and principles that inform the way individuals and groups conceive of and act to achieve that which they understand to be the public good” (23). It is important to remember that public power was held by the white majority and the outcome and the progression of the city was left in their
At the time race did not play a huge factor in the social status but rather through property and power. However, once the U.S. obtained California the customs soon also replaced the Spanish culture. Professor Torres- Rouff showed the change of L.A in his lecture “Space, Identity, and Public Power in Nineteenth Century Los Angeles”. He showed that of the time white people defined space and a place and created boundaries that distinguished the races. This was also possible because of the time most of the people who had public power were white majority. Rouff defines public power as “A set of ideas and principles that inform the way individuals and groups conceive of and act to achieve that which they understand to be the public good” (23). It is important to remember that public power was held by the white majority and the outcome and the progression of the city was left in their