American Babylon : : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland /

American Babylon : : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland / / Robert O. Self.

As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland an...

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Self, Robert O.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2005]
©2003
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 30 halftones. 8 tables. 11 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One. URBAN AND SUBURBAN POLITICS AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM, 1945-1964
  • 1. Industrial Garden
  • 2. Working Class
  • 3. Tax Dollar
  • PART II. RACE, URBAN TRANSFORMATION, AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SEGREGATION, 1954-1966
  • 4. Redistribution
  • 5. Opportunity Politics
  • PART III. BLACK LIBERATION AND SUBURBAN REVOLT, 1964-1978
  • 6. Black Power
  • 7. White Noose
  • 8. Babylon
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Population, Housing, and Taxes
  • Notes
  • Index

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