WORLDS APART: TWO VIEWS OF RECENT AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES IN LOS ANGELES. |
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DeGraaf, Lawrence B.
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1/1/97
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Journal
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Pacific Historical Review
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66(1)
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African American
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Reviews two books on race relations between African Americans and whites in Los Angeles: Gerald Horne s Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (1995) and Raphael Sonenschein s Politics in Black and White:Race and Power in Los Angeles (1993). Both books treat the race issue in the city since the 1960 s, but Sonenschein emphasizes the public policy arena and the political sphere of both white elites and the black middle class, while Horne concentrates onthe feelings and complaints of those in the Watts ghetto and their rebellion. There have been two black groups with different identities in Los Angeles: middle-class blacks who accept the larger American ideals, and the marginalized inhabitants of Wattsand other areas, who have little connection to this identity and are hostile toward what they view as a harsh, racist, and corrupt system.
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