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American Babylon : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland /
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 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
34 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Part One. URBAN AND SUBURBAN POLITICS AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM, 1945-1964
- 1. Industrial Garden
- 2. Working Class
- 3. Tax Dollar
- PART II. RACE, URBAN TRANSFORMATION, AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SEGREGATION, 1954-1966
- 4. Redistribution
- 5. Opportunity Politics
- PART III. BLACK LIBERATION AND SUBURBAN REVOLT, 1964-1978
- 6. Black Power
- 7. White Noose
- 8. Babylon
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Population, Housing, and Taxes
- Notes
- Index