Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Spring 1994
Abstract
The automobile-inspired sprawl of Los Angeles has fascinated historians and other social scientists. Few scholars outside Southern California, however, have realized that patterns of race relations in Los Angeles are of national significance. This book, along with Mike Davis's City of Quartz (1990), should cause historians to reexamine some of their assumptions about racial politics in U.S. cities. Politics in Black and White is a valuable and important study of race and politics in Los Angeles during the last three decades. It argues that several groups of citizens were largely excluded from city politics because Los Angeles was a western city without a strong political machine.
Publication Title
Western Historical Quarterly
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
104
Last Page
105
Required Publisher's Statement
Published by: Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University on behalf of The Western History Association
Issue Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/i239731
Recommended Citation
Leonard, Kevin Allen, "Review of: Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles, by Raphael J. Sonenshein" (1994). History Faculty and Staff Publications. 64.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/history_facpubs/64
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Politics and government; Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government; Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Sonenshein, Raphael. Politics in black and white
Geographic Coverage
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Genre/Form
reviews (documents)
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
