Main entry:

Gibbons, Andrea, author. aut

Title & Author:

City of segregation : one hundred years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles / Andrea Gibbons.

Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-216) and index.
Part one. The long road to 1948: ending de jure segregation. As worthy as you: the struggles of black homeowners through the 1920s -- Victory abroad and at home: the second campaign against race-restrictive covenants -- White reaction: old walls torn down and new one raised.
Part two. 1960s: bringing down the hate wall. CORE and the testing of the white suburbs -- The second salvo: Don Wilson and the battle for the South Bay.
Part three. Into the 2000s and back to the center: the racial cleansing of Skid Row. Battle on Skid Row -- Beating back the onslaught: the safer cities initiative -- Neoliberalism found?

Summary:

"A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way that the city of Los Angeles--and all US cities--have formed and grown. There is a long, ugly history of state-supported segregation, the violent local defence of white neighbourhood and racial boundaries with continuing police oppression, ever growing political and economic inequalities, the drive to neoliberalization and privatisation, and today's mass displacement of communities of colour in central areas--a process too often described as incidental. This book attempts to explain what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls these death-dealing differences. City of Segregation traces one hundred years of the struggle against segregation in Los Angeles; from the struggles that together ended de jure segregation in 1948, to the campaign that resulted in the 1964 prohibition of de facto discrimination and the 2006 fight to implement strict controls over private security forces and to preserve over ten thousand residential hotel units in the heart of gentrifying downtown. Gibbons contends that the study of these struggles, of the cycles of victory and retreat reveals the true shape and nature of the racist logics that must be fought if we have any hope of replacing them with a just city"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781786634993 hardcover
1786634996 hardcover
9781786632708 paperback
1786632705 paperback

Subject:

Discrimination in housing California Los Angeles.
African Americans Housing California Los Angeles.
Housing policy California Los Angeles.
Discrimination dans le logement Californie Los Angeles.
Noirs américains Logement Californie Los Angeles.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Californie Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
African Americans Housing.
Discrimination in housing.
Housing policy.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations.
California Los Angeles.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302454
Call No.: BIB 248668
Status: Available