In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most
desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city
burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the
nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both
the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants
from the South--is the story told for the first time in this
history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling
look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods,
schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, "L.A.
City Limits "critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the
origins of America's racial and urban crisis.
Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern
"rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides
asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated
profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse
racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar
economy often created opportunities--and limits--quite different
from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
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