Indefensible Spaces : Policing and the Struggle for Housing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurwa, Rahim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--California--Antelope Valley--21st century.

Discrimination in housing.

African Americans--California--Antelope Valley--Social conditions--21st century.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Language Note:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County's northernmost outpost. Tracing its evolution from a segregated postwar suburb to a destination for those priced, policed, and evicted out of Los Angeles, Rahim Kurwa tells the story of how the Antelope Valley resisted Black migration through the policing of subsidized housing--and how Black tenants and organizers fought back. This book sheds light on how the nation's policing and housing crises intersect, offering powerful lessons for achieving housing justice across the country.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface: The Prismatic Periphery

Chronology

Introduction: Every Oasis Needs a Desert

1. Sun Village

2. Redeeming the Right to Discriminate

3. Apartheid's Afterlives

4. Unmaking Home

5. The Second Sun

Conclusion: Another Valley Is Possible

Acknowledgments

Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-40177-8

OCLC:

1517397960