American Babylon (eBook)

Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

Robert O. Self (Autor)

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2005
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4417-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Black power and the tax revolt evolved together, in tension.American Babylon demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began during the World War II years and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This struggle yielded a wide-ranging and profound critique of postwar metropolitan development and its foundation of class and racial segregation. Self traces the roots of the 1978 tax revolt to the 1940s, when home owners, real estate brokers, and the federal government used racial segregation and industrial property taxes to forge a middle-class lifestyle centered on property ownership.Using the East Bay as a starting point, Robert Self gives us a richly detailed, engaging narrative that uniquely integrates the most important racial liberation struggles and class politics of postwar America.

Autor

Robert O. Self is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 30 halftones. 8 tables. 11 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Affirmative Action • AFL-CIO • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • African American Museum and Library at Oakland • African Americans • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • A. Philip Randolph • Barbara Easley • black capitalism • Black lives matter • Black Nationalism • Black Panther Party • black people • Black Power • blue-collar worker • Bobby Seale • Breonna Taylor • California Proposition 13 (1978) • Capitalism • chairman • Citizens (Spanish political party) • city council • C. L. Dellums • decentralization • deindustrialization • Derek Chauvin • desegregation • Downtown Oakland • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Elaine Brown • Eldridge Cleaver • Employment • employment discrimination • Eric Garner • Ericka Huggins • Fred Hampton • Funding • Geoff Eley • George Floyd • Graduate school • Grassroots • Great Society • Homeowner association • Housing crisis • Housing discrimination • Huey Newton • Huey P. Newton • Ideology • incumbent • Institution • International Brotherhood of Teamsters • Jim Crow • Kathleen Cleaver • key system • labour law • Labour movement • Layoff • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberalism • local government • Lyndon B. Johnson • Malcolm X • maoism • Mao Zedong • McCarthyism • middle class • NAACP • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Urban League • Oakland Museum of California • Philando Castile • Police brutality • political agenda • Political culture • Political Economy • political movement • political spectrum • political strategy • Politician • Politics • Populism • Port of Oakland • Princeton University Press • progressivism • Property Tax • Public housing • Racial Discrimination • Racial Equality • Racial segregation • Racism • radicalism • Radicalism (historical) • Redevelopment • Research Center • residence • Retail • Ronald Reagan • Rosa Parks • san francisco bay area • San Francisco State University • Slum • Small Business • Social Class • Stanford University • Subsidy • suburb • Suburbanization • Tax • Tax Reform • Teamster • Trade Union • Unemployment • United States • University of Washington • urban planning • Urban renewal • Voting • War on Poverty • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Workforce • Working Class • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4417-7 / 1400844177
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4417-3 / 9781400844173