Black Los Angeles
Subtitle: American dreams and racial realities
By: edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780814737347; 9780814737354
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, space, and the evolution of Black Los Angeles / Paul Robinson; title: From Central Avenue to Leimert Park: the shifting center of Black Los Angeles / Reginald Chapple; title: The decline of a Black community by the sea: demographic and political changes in Oakwood / Andrew Deener; title: "Blowing up" at Project Blowed: rap dreams and young Black men / Jooyoung Lee; title: Out of the void: street gangs in Black Los Angeles / Alex Alonso; title: Imprisoning the family: incarceration in Black Los Angeles / M. Belinda Tucker ... [et al.]; title: Black and gay in LA: the relationships Black lesbians and gay men have to their racial and religious communities / Mignon Moore; title: Looking for the 'hood and finding community: South Central, race, and media / Dionne Bennett; title: Playing "ghetto": Black actors, stereotypes, and authenticity / Nancy Wang Yuen; title: Before and after Watts: Black art in Los Angeles / Paul Von Blum; title: SOLAR: the history of the sounds of Los Angeles records / Scot Brown; title: Killing "Killer King": The Los Angeles Times and a "troubled" hospital in the 'hood / Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón; title: Bass to bass: relative freedom and womanist leadership in Black Los Angeles / Melina Abdullah and Regina Freer; title: Concerned citizens: environmental (in)justice in Black Los Angeles / Sonya Winton; title: A common project for a just society: Black labor in Los Angeles / Edna Bonacich ... [et al.]; title: Reclaiming UCLA: the education crisis in Black Los Angeles / Ana-Christina Ramón and Darnell Hunt.