[PDF.95ap] American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)

American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)

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 | #2398305 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2003-11-02 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.18 x6.36 x9.88l, | File type: PDF | 408 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating Look at California Suburbanization|By Matthew W. Quinn|This book is a fascinating looking at the growth of Oakland's suburbs, the problems that brought to Oakland proper, and how everybody responded. It has a wealth of detail, is extremely well-researched, and is an easy read.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| got the job| || Winner of the 2005 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians| || Winner of the 2005 Best Book in Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Association| || Winner of the 2004 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Ass

As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Rob...

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