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Making Black Los Angeles : Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917.
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only 12 Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following 70 years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2016.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only 12 Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following 70 years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged a vibrant community within the increasingly segregatedand stratified city. In this book, historian Marne L. Campbell examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469629292 1469629291 9781469629285 1469629283 |