American babylon: race and the struggle for postwar oakland
Auteur :
Self, Robert O.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691124865
Date de publication :
28 août 2005
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
599 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development.