Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California

The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low—wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority—nonwhite state. In Inland Shift, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California’s logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods, to examine how modern capitalism w...