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The dark gloom continues in [[Latino]] literature. For example, the dangerous streets in Luis Rodríguez's 1993 autobiographical novel ''Always Running:  La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.'' are a metaphor for young urban Latinos' sense of despair and search for self that can lead them into gang activity.<ref>Fine (2000); Maria Herrera-Sobek, "Geography of Despair: The Mean Streets of L.A. in Luis Rodriguez's ''Always Running''". ''Latino Studies Journal 1997 8(2): 56-67. 1066-1344</ref>

The dark gloom continues in [[Latino]] literature. For example, the dangerous streets in Luis Rodríguez's 1993 autobiographical novel ''Always Running:  La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.'' are a metaphor for young urban Latinos' sense of despair and search for self that can lead them into gang activity.<ref>Fine (2000); Maria Herrera-Sobek, "Geography of Despair: The Mean Streets of L.A. in Luis Rodriguez's ''Always Running''". ''Latino Studies Journal 1997 8(2): 56-67. 1066-1344</ref>

Since the beginning of the entertainment industry's days in Los Angeles, the city has frequently been seen as promoting [[Hollywood values]] to the world, and the city is famous as a den of iniquity and a 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'.

Since the beginning of the entertainment industry's days in Los Angeles, the city has frequently been seen as promoting [[Hollywood values]] to the world, and the city is infamous as a den of iniquity and a 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'.

==See also==

==See also==