The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles

by Scott Kurashige

Book Overview

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting Grounds of Race , Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126399
• ISBN13: 9780691126395
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"