1960s
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african americans
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black americans
black experience
black migrants
california
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critical history
deindustrialization
discussion books
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great depression
historical
los angeles
modern history
modern los angeles
nonfiction
postwar economy
race riots
racial diversity
racial issues
regional differences
regional history
social inequality
urban america
urban crisis
urban landscape
urban studies
westward movement
Product details
- ISBN 9780520248304
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Josh Sides is Assistant Professor of History at Cal Poly Pomona.
