The Shifting Grounds of Race : : Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles /

The Shifting Grounds of Race : : Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles / / Scott Kurashige.

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting Gro...

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Kurashige, Scott,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2007
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 67
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 20 halftones. 3 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Constructing the Segregated City
  • CHAPTER 2. Home Improvement
  • CHAPTER 3. Racial Progress and Class Formation
  • CHAPTER 4. In the Shadow of War
  • CHAPTER 5. Japanese American Internment
  • CHAPTER 6. The "Negro Victory" Movement
  • CHAPTER 7. Bronzeville and Little Tokyo
  • CHAPTER 8. Toward a Model Minority
  • CHAPTER 9. Black Containment
  • CHAPTER 10. The Fight for Housing Integration
  • CHAPTER 11. From Integration to Multiculturalism
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA

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