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Zusatztext "The broad chronological scope of L.A. City Limits allows Sides to explore the effects of long-term developments such as suburbanization and deindustrialization upon AfricanAmericans. It also leaves open to Sides and other historians the opportunity to explore in greater depth the experiences of African Americans at certain, critical points in time." Informationen zum Autor Josh Sides is Assistant Professor of History at Cal Poly Pomona. Klappentext In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods! schools! and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day! "L.A. City Limits "critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization! Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition! dispersive geography! and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities--and limits--quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North. Zusammenfassung In 1964, an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965, the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass is the story told in this history of modern black Los Angeles. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
