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20%OFFScott Kurashige - The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles - 9780691146188 - V9780691146188
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The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles

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Description for The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles Paperback. Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. This work highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
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 Grounds of Race, Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles. Linking paradigmatic events like Japanese American internment and the Black civil rights movement, Kurashige transcends the usual "black/white" dichotomy to explore the multiethnic dimensions of segregation and integration. Racism and sprawl shaped the dominant ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691146188
SKU
V9780691146188
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About Scott Kurashige
Scott Kurashige is associate professor of history, American culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander American studies at the University of Michigan.

Reviews for The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Winner of the 2008 Albert J. Beveridge Book Award, American Historical Association Winner of the 2008 Book Award in History, Association for Asian American Studies "During 'the white years' in LA history, you might think Asian immigrant groups and black migrants from the South lived in separate worlds. The truth is more complicated: sometimes they were pitted against each other, ... Read more

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