American Babylon Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

Name: American Babylon Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
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ISBN: 9780691124865

ISBN-10: 0691124868

ISBN-13: 9780691124865

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert O. Self

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This volume demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began in World War II and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.17" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.452



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Urban and Suburban Politics and the California Dream, 1945-1964



Industrial Garden



Working Class



Tax Dollar 96



Race, Urban Transformation, and the Struggle Against Segregation, 1954-1966



Redistribution



Opportunity Politics 177



Black Liberation and Suburban Revolt, 1964-1978



Black Power



White Noose



Babylon


Conclusion


Appendix: Population, Housing, and Taxes


Notes


Index