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Black Los Angeles - American Dreams and Racial Realities (Hardcover)
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Black Los Angeles - American Dreams and Racial Realities (Hardcover)
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An in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of
black life in Los Angeles Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate
paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming
luxury housing market, and the home of glamorous Hollywood. During
the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles was also seen
as a mecca for both African Americans and a steady stream of
migrants from around the country and the world, transforming Los
Angeles into one of the world's most diverse cities. The city has
become a multicultural maze in which many now fear that the
political clout of the region's large black population has been
lost. Nonetheless, the dream of a better life lives on for black
Angelenos today, despite the harsh social and economic conditions
many confront. Black Los Angeles is the culmination of a
groundbreaking research project from the Ralph J. Bunche Center for
African American Studies at UCLA that presents an in-depth analysis
of the historical and contemporary contours of black life in Los
Angeles. Based on innovative research, the original essays are
multi-disciplinary in approach and comprehensive in scope,
connecting the dots between the city's racial past, present, and
future. Through historical and contemporary anecdotes, oral
histories, maps, photographs, illustrations, and demographic data,
we see that Black Los Angeles is and has always been a space of
profound contradictions. Just as Los Angeles has come to symbolize
the complexities of the early twenty-first-century city, so too has
Black Los Angeles come to embody the complex realities of race in
so-called "colorblind" times. Contributors: Melina Abdullah, Alex
Alonso, Dionne Bennett, Joshua Bloom, Edna Bonacich, Scot Brown,
Reginald Chapple, Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Andrew Deener, Regina
Freer, Jooyoung Lee, Mignon R. Moore, Lanita Morris, Neva
Pemberton, Steven C. Pitts, Carrie Petrucci, Gwendelyn Rivera, Paul
Robinson, M. Belinda Tucker, Paul Von Blum, Mary Weaver, Sonya
Winton, and Nancy Wang Yuen.
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