Mike Fortun, "Neighborhood Oil Drilling in Signal Hill", contributed by Katie Cox, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 10 May 2019, accessed 14 November 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/neighborhood-oil-drilling-signal-hill
Critical Commentary
In Signal Hill, toxic oil wells abut million-dollar residential properties. Legacies of racist redlining, real estate speculation, and oil extraction produce stark contradictions of affluence and toxicity at ground zero of Los Angeles' 20th century oil boom.