The shifting grounds of race : black and Japanese Americans in the making of multiethnic Los Angeles / Scott Kurashige.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurashige, Scott.

Series:

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Japanese Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Japanese Americans.

History.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

xi unnumbered pages, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Scott Kurashige shifts the urban history paradigm in this brilliantly triangulated account of African American and Japanese American resistance to white racism in Los Angeles."--Mike Davis, author of "Planet of Slums" and "In Praise of Barbarians"

"By offering a comparative and relational history of African Americans and Japanese Americans in Los Angeles and their respective struggles against racial segregation, Scott Kurashige extends our historical knowledge about race relations and civil rights to the West. Indeed, he shows just how many of the multiracial questions that vex us today were prefigured in Los Angeles in the early and middle twentieth century."--Mae Ngai, author of "Impossible Subjects

Contents:

Chapter 1 Constructing the Segregated City 13

Chapter 2 Home Improvement 36

Chapter 3 Racial Progress and Class Formation 64

Chapter 4 In the Shadow of War 91

Chapter 5 Japanese American Internment 108

Chapter 6 The "Negro Victory" Movement 132

Chapter 7 Bronzeville and Little Tokyo 158

Chapter 8 Toward a Model Minority 186

Chapter 9 Black Containment 205

Chapter 10 The Fight for Housing Integration 234

Chapter 11 From Integration to Multiculturalism 259.

ISBN:

9780691126395

0691126399

OCLC:

173499120