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Book SynopsisFocuses on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States. This book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multi ethnic America.
Trade Review"The essays all merit individual reviews, which is not possible, but it is just as well because they should be read as one. Highly recommended." CHOICE "Exceeds [its] categories and adds to an emerging corpus of comparative knowledge ... the book shows what interdisciplinary scholarship can do for America's understanding of itself, especially when it comes to culturally promiscuous, ethnically heterogeneous megapolises like LA." -- Ryan Boyd The Los Angeles Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Josh Kun and Laura Pulido PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES 1. Keeping It Real: Demographic Change, Economic Conflict, and Interethnic Organizing for Social Justice in Los Angeles Manuel Pastor 2. Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants' Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970--2007 Abigail Rosas 3. Black Views toward Proposed Undocumented Immigration Policies: The Role of Stereotypes and Economic Competition Lorrie Frasure-Yokley and Stacey Greene PART TWO. URBAN HISTORIES 4. The Changing Valence of White Racial Innocence: Black-Brown Unity in the 1970s Los Angeles School Desegregation Struggles Daniel Martinez HoSang 5. Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles Max Felker-Kantor 6. The Politics of Low and Slow/Bajito y Suavecito: Black and Chicano Lowriders in Los Angeles, from the 1960s through the 1970s Denise M. Sandoval PART THREE. COMMUNITY LIFE AND POLITICS 7. Rainbow Coalition in the Golden State? Exposing Myths, Uncovering New Realities in Latino Attitudes toward Blacks Matt A. Barreto, Benjamin F. Gonzalez, and Gabriel R. Sanchez 8. Race and the L.A. Human: Race Relations and Violence in Globalized Los Angeles Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas PART FOUR. REPORTING BLACK AND BROWN L.A.: A JOURNALIST'S VIEW 9. More Than Just the Latinos-Next-Door; Piercing Black Silence on Immigration; and Plugging Immigration's Drain on Black Employment Erin Aubry Kaplan 10. Race, Real Estate, and the Mexican Mafia: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields Sam Quinones PART FIVE. CITY CULTURES 11. Landscapes of Black and Brown Los Angeles: A Photo Essay Wendy Cheng 12. Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Sonic Reclamation in Postwar Los Angeles Gaye Theresa Johnson 13. On Fallen Nature and the Two Cities Nery Gabriel Lemus 14. "Just Win, Baby!" The Raider Nation and Second Chances for Black and Brown L.A. Priscilla Leiva 15. What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda? Making Music in Nuevo L.A. Josh Kun List of Contributors Index
