The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
- ISBN-10
- 0691126399
- ISBN-13
- 9780691126395
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Scott Kurashige
Description
Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade 20th century Los Angeles.
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