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The shifting grounds of race: black and Japanese Americans in the making of multiethnic Los Angeles

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List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Constructing the Segregated City 13 Chapter 2: Home Improvement 36 Chapter 3: Racial Progress and Class Formation 64 Chapter 4: In the Shadow of War 91 Chapter 5: Japanese American Internment 108 Chapter 6: The Negro Victory Movement 132 Chapter 7: Bronzeville and Little Tokyo 158 Chapter 8: Toward a Model Minority 186 Chapter 9: Black Containment 205 Chapter 10: The Fight for Housing Integration 234 Chapter 11: From Integration to Multiculturalism 259 Conclusion 286 Abbreviations 295 Notes 297 Acknowledgments 331 Index 333

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Key concepts: Race (biology), History, Genealogy, Gender studies, Sociology