The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles

by Jennifer Mandel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647790344
• ISBN13: 9781647790349
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"