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The Coveted Westside
Jennifer Mandel
其他書名
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
出版University of Nevada Press, 2022-03-29
主題History / GeneralHistory / African American & BlackPolitical Science / Human RightsLaw / Civil RightsLaw / Housing & Urban Development
ISBN16477903529781647790356
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0dBbEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous inhabitants and descendants of earlier Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Coveted Westside deals with the settlement and development of Los Angeles in the context of its multiracial, multiethnic population, especially African Americans.

Mandel exposes the enduring struggle between Whites determined to establish their hegemony and create residential heterogeneity in the growing city, and people of color equally determined to obtain full access to the city and the opportunities, including residential, that it offered. Not only does this book document the Black homeowners’ fight against housing discrimination, it shares personal accounts of Blacks’ efforts to settle in the highly desirable Westside of Los Angeles. Mandel explores the White-derived social and legal mechanisms that created this segregated city and the African American-led movement that challenged efforts to block access to fair housing.