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Paperback American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland Book
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ISBN: 0691124868

ISBN13: 9780691124865

American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

(Part of the Politics and Society in Modern America Series)

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A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland

As 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...

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