Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition /

Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition / edited by Josh Kun and Laura Pulido. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES -- Keeping it Real: Demographics, Workforce, and Organizing for African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles / Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970-2007 / Putting Down Roots: Spatial Context and Inter-group Relations in Suburban Los Angeles / PART TWO. URBAN HISTORIES -- The Changing Valence of White Racial Innocence: The Los Angeles School Desegregation Struggles of the 1970s / Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles / Lowriding in Los Angeles: Black and Chicano Inter-relationships / PART THREE. COMMUNITY LIFE AND POLITICS -- Rainbow Coalition in the Golden State?: Exposing Myths, Uncovering New Realities in Latino Attitudes toward Blacks / Race, the Citizen, and the L.A.1 Human: Race Relations and State Violence in Globalized Los Angeles / PART FOUR. REPORTING BLACK AND BROWN L.A.: A JOURNALIST'S VIEW -- More than Just the Latinos-Next-Door: Piercing Black Silence on Immigration and Plugging Immigration's Drain on Black Employment / The Violent Real Estate of Street Life: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields / PART FIVE. CITY CULTURES -- Landscapes of Black and Brown L.A.: A Photo Essay / Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Reclamation in Post-war Los Angeles / The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?: Making Music in Nuevo L.A. / Manuel Pastor -- Abigail Rosas -- Lorrie Frasure and Stacey Greene -- Daniel Martinez HoSang -- Max Felker-Kantor -- Denise Sandoval -- Matt A. Barreto, Ben F. Gonzalez, and Gabriel R. Sanchez -- Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas -- Erin Aubrey Kaplan -- Sam Quinoes -- Wendy Cheng -- Gaye T. Johnson -- Nery Gabriel Lemus -- Priscilla Leiva -- Josh Kun.

" ... a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multiethnic America. Students, faculty, and interested readers will gain an understanding of the different forms of cultural borrowing and exchange that have shaped a terrain through which African Americans and Latinas/os cross paths, intersect, move in parallel tracks, and engage with a whole range of aspects of urban living. Tensions and shared intimacies are recurrent themes that emerge as the contributors seek to integrate artistic and cultural constructs with politics and economics in their goal of extending simple paradigms of conflict, cooperation, or coalition. The book features essays by historians, economists, and cultural and ethnic studies scholars, alongside contributions by photographers and journalists working in Los Angeles."--Provided by publisher.



9781299988163 9780520956872


African Americans--California--Los Angeles.
Hispanic Americans--California--Los Angeles.
Minorities--California--Los Angeles.
Community development--California--Los Angeles.
Community life--California--Los Angeles.


Electronic Books.

F869 / .B533 2013