As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it
at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians
were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By
occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans
challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of Black identity
on the regional landscape and social space. In Living the
California Dream Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African
Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by
creating communities and business projects in conjunction with
their growing population in Southern California during the
nation’s Jim Crow era. By presenting stories of Southern
California African American oceanfront and inland leisure
destinations that flourished from 1910 to the 1960s, Jefferson
illustrates how these places helped create leisure production,
purposes, and societal encounters. Black communal practices and
economic development around leisure helped define the practice and
meaning of leisure for the region and the nation, confronted the
emergent power politics of recreational space, and set the stage
for the sites as places for remembrance of invention and public
contest. Living the California Dream presents the overlooked local
stories that are foundational to the national narrative of mass
movement to open recreational accommodations to all Americans and
to the long freedom rights struggle.
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