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OverviewThe Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer MandelPublisher: University of Nevada Press Imprint: University of Nevada Press Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781647790349ISBN 10: 1647790344 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 29 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Coveted Westside is an extremely well-researched and clearly written manuscript that synthesizes a lot of the literature on Black Los Angeles and makes several key contributions of its own. Mandel delves into greater detail than anyone has concerning the precise mechanisms of zoning and housing restriction. The material [is] impeccably researched and novel . . . and the richest account I've seen. --Josh Sides, Whitsett Professor of California History, California State University-Northridge, director of the Center for Southern California Studies, author of L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present The Coveted Westside is the most comprehensive treatment of how a highly motivated population of middle-class blacks fought for housing equality, and therefore made a specific and identifiable contribution to the broader enterprise of securing basic democratic rights in postwar America. --Daniel Widener, associate professor of history, University of California, San Diego, author of Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in black Los Angeles, 1942-1992 Author InformationJennifer Mandel, PhD, serves as associate director of assessment in the University of New England's Office of the Provost. In addition to her administrative role, she has taught history courses at the University of New England, Granite State College, Hesser College, and the University of New Hampshire. Mandel has published work on African American journalist and activist Almena Lomax in the Southern California Quarterly. She was born and raised in Los Angeles Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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