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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Josh Sides |
ISBN: | 0520248309 9780520248304 |
OCLC Number: | 255798795 |
Notes: | First paperback printing. Orig. publ. 2003. |
Description: | XIV, 288 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. African American Los Angeles Before World War II 2. The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles 3. The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941--1964 4. Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles 5. Making the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles 6. Black Community Transformation in the 1960s and 1970s Epilogue Notes Bibliography List of Captions Index |
Other Titles: | LA city limits Los Angeles city limits |
Responsibility: | Josh Sides. |
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"An exceptional book....[Sides] mixes pioneering research with good writing, sharp analysis and the moving stories of everyday people. His work deserves a place on the bookshelves of all serious students of Los Angeles and the rest of urban California." - Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times Book Review "source material for for planners of tomorrow's multiracial cities." "[A] counter-narrative to the historic narrative of crime, violence and poverty." - Michael T. Jarvis, La Times Magazine" Read more...
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