The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles (The Urban West Series) - Softcover

Mandel, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1647790344 ISBN 13: 9781647790349

Publisher: University of Nevada Press, 2022

Synopsis

From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous inhabitants and descendants of earlier Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Coveted Westside deals with the settlement and development of Los Angeles in the context of its multiracial, multiethnic population, especially African Americans.

Mandel exposes the enduring struggle between Whites determined to establish their hegemony and create residential heterogeneity in the growing city, and people of color equally determined to obtain full access to the city and the opportunities, including residential, that it offered. Not only does this book document the Black homeowners’ fight against housing discrimination, it shares personal accounts of Blacks’ efforts to settle in the highly desirable Westside of Los Angeles. Mandel explores the White-derived social and legal mechanisms that created this segregated city and the African American-led movement that challenged efforts to block access to fair housing.

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About the Author

Jennifer 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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1647790344
• ISBN 13: 9781647790349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372