My paper’s focus will be on Chavez Ravine, with using the opposing theories of power elite vs interest groups. Both power elite and the interest groups theories are, theories that deal with who has the power in a community, and how that power is distributed. Chavez Ravine is a good example of this power distribution, because it is a controversial event that started in early 1950s. The events of Chavez Ravine is that, the government took the land in which mostly non white people lived, and turned it into the which is currently known as the Dodger stadium (Hines, 1966). Power elite theory states that, in a community the ones who possess the power are the ones that are in powerful positions and those that possess wealth. Those people that are
