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The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE: BLACK AND JAPANESE AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES

By Scott Kurashige (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, 362 pp., $35.00 cloth)

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SCOTT KURASHIGE'S FINE STUDY advances the creation of a fully multicultural American history by asking, "How did [Los Angeles,] a city governed by white supremacy become a center of multiculturalism?" He answers by examining the changing relationships and positions of African Americans and Japanese Americans in the "shifting ground" of the local...

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