Black and Brown in Los Angeles : Beyond Conflict and Coalition / edited by Josh Kun and Laura Pulido.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kun, Josh, editor.

Pulido, Laura, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--California--Los Angeles.

African Americans.

Community life.

Community development.

Minorities.

Hispanic Americans.

California--Los Angeles.

Hispanic Americans--California--Los Angeles.

Minorities--California--Los Angeles.

Community development--California--Los Angeles.

Community life--California--Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 406 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Contents:

PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

Keeping it Real: Demographics, Workforce, and Organizing for African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles / Manuel Pastor

Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970-2007 / Abigail Rosas

Putting Down Roots: Spatial Context and Inter-group Relations in Suburban Los Angeles / Lorrie Frasure and Stacey Greene

PART TWO. URBAN HISTORIES

The Changing Valence of White Racial Innocence: The Los Angeles School Desegregation Struggles of the 1970s / Daniel Martinez HoSang

Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles / Max Felker-Kantor

Lowriding in Los Angeles: Black and Chicano Inter-relationships / Denise Sandoval

PART THREE. COMMUNITY LIFE AND POLITICS

Rainbow Coalition in the Golden State?: Exposing Myths, Uncovering New Realities in Latino Attitudes toward Blacks / Matt A. Barreto, Ben F. Gonzalez, and Gabriel R. Sanchez

Race, the Citizen, and the L.A.1 Human: Race Relations and State Violence in Globalized Los Angeles / Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas

PART FOUR. REPORTING BLACK AND BROWN L.A.: A JOURNALIST'S VIEW

More than Just the Latinos-Next-Door: Piercing Black Silence on Immigration and Plugging Immigration's Drain on Black Employment / Erin Aubrey Kaplan

The Violent Real Estate of Street Life: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields / Sam Quinoes

PART FIVE. CITY CULTURES

Landscapes of Black and Brown L.A.: A Photo Essay / Wendy Cheng

Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Reclamation in Post-war Los Angeles / Gaye T. Johnson

The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Nery Gabriel Lemus

Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / Priscilla Leiva

What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?: Making Music in Nuevo L.A. / Josh Kun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520275591

0520275594

9780520275607

0520275608

OCLC:

838792327