Between "White Spot" and "World City": Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism

A Companion to Los Angeles

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 56-71

  Kurashige, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

"white spot" and "world city" racial integration and roots of multiculturalism; Black and japanese americans intersecting histories; Cold war limits of integration; Community service organization's grassroots mobilization eastside mexican americans; Integration wartime roots; New levels of racial tolerance and opportunities for non white settlements; Social critic pearl buck, and los angeles civic leaders race relations in changing world; Social democracy and multiracial integration; Unifying effects of anti japanese mobilization a double edged sword; World War II, turning point in paradigm shift toward racial integration in los angeles

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EID: 84885988077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390964.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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