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American Babylon: race and the struggle for postwar Oakland

Robert O. Self c2003 © Princeton University Press
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Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9781400844173 (ebook)
  • 9780691070261 (hardcover)
  • 9780691124865 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Abbreviations (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I: URBAN AND SUBURBAN POLITICS AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM, 1945-1964 (page 21)
    • 1. Industrial Garden (page 23)
    • 2. Working Class (page 61)
    • 3. Tax Dollar (page 96)
  • PART II: RACE, URBAN TRANSFORMATION, AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SEGREGATION, 1954-1966 (page 133)
    • 4. Redistribution (page 135)
    • 5. Opportunity Politics (page 177)
  • PART III: BLACK LIBERATION AND SUBURBAN REVOLT, 1964-1978 (page 215)
    • 6. Black Power (page 217)
    • 7. White Noose (page 256)
    • 8. Babylon (page 291)
  • Conclusion (page 328)
  • Appendix: Population, Housing, and Taxes (page 335)
  • Notes (page 339)
  • Index (page 379)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 91.3 (Dec. 2004): 1091 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3662992
JAAH 92.1 (Winter 2007): 137-139 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064168
RAHA 32.4 (Dec. 2004): 552-557 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031446
PHR 73.3 (Aug. 2004): 514-515 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3642146
AmQ 57.1 (Mar. 2005): 297-304 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068264
JSocH 39.1 (Autumn 2005): 229-243 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790537
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