American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

by Robert O. Self

Book Overview

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in 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 and its nearby suburbs, tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691124868
• ISBN13: 9780691124865
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"