Description: American Babylon by Robert O. Self Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work 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. Publisher Description 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 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. Author Biography Robert O. Self is assistant professor of history at Brown University. Details ISBN 0691124868 ISBN-13 9780691124865 Title American Babylon Author Robert O. Self Format Paperback Year 2005 Pages 408 Publisher Princeton University Press GE_Item_ID:8378516; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780691124865
Book Title: American Babylon
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: American Babylon : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Real Estate / General, Civil Rights, Taxation / General, American Government / State, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Robert O. Self
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
