Making Black Los Angeles Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 / Marne L. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Marne L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Community life.

Community life--California--Los Angeles--History--19th century.

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions--19th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only 12 Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following 70 years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged a vibrant community within the increasingly segregatedand stratified city. In this book, historian Marne L. Campbell examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles.

Contents:

Myths & origins : racial formation in Los Angeles

Heaven ain't hard to find : the formation of the African American community

Establishing and maintaining institutions

The development of the underclass

They were all filled with the Holy Ghost! : the early years of the Azusa Street revival

Booker T. Washington goes west.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908497-9-3

979-88-908498-0-9

1-4696-2928-3

1-4696-2929-1

OCLC:

960759014