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Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
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An in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of Black life in Los Angeles.

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 collected here 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 L.A. is and has always been a space of profound contradictions. Just as Los Angeles has come to symbolize the complexities of the early 21st 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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Release dateMay 1, 2010
ISBN9780814773062
Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities

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