American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oakland

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The work American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oakland represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oakland

Title remainder

race and the struggle for postwar Oakland

Statement of responsibility

Robert O. Self

Creator

• Self, Robert O., 1968-
• Self, Robert O., 1968-

Subject

• City and town life -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century
• Homeowners -- California | Oakland Region -- Political activity
• Oakland Region (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
• Oakland Region (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Oakland Region (Calif.) -- Race relations
• Property tax -- Political aspects -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century
• Social classes -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century
• Suburban life -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century
• Black power -- California | Oakland Region -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

This volume demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began in World War II and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s

Member of

• Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books
• Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Cataloging source

NyNyACL

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• theses
• bibliography

Series statement

Politics and society in twentieth-century America