Black arts West
Subtitle: culture and struggle in postwar Los Angeles
By: Daniel Widener.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822346678; 9780822346791
Subjects: African American arts -- Political aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; African American artists -- Political activity -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hollywood scuffle : the Second World War, Los Angeles, and the politics of wartime representation; title: The Negro as human being? Desegregation and the Black arts imperative; title: Writing Watts : the rise and fall of cultural liberalism; title: Notes from the underground : free jazz and Black power in South Los Angeles; title: Studios in the street : creative community and visual arts; title: The arms of criticism : the cultural politics of urban insurgency; title: An intimate enemy : culture and the contradictions of Bradleyism; title: How to survive in South Central : Black film as class critique.