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 5/5(2). · Robert O. Self’s study of Oakland, American Babylon, makes many of the same connections. Following the history of Oakland from the s through , Self argues that the Black Power Movement and the Conservative Movement evolved in tandem as political manifestations of the underlying contest between predominantly black inner city residents and white suburbanites/5. · American Babylon.: Robert O. Self. Princeton University Press, Aug 8, - History - pages. 0 Reviews. A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in Index:
"American Babylon traces the dialectic of suburbanization and black power in my hometown of Oakland, California. Encapsulating the postwar history of hundreds of mid-sized American cities, Robert Self's original and fascinating case study historicizes city-suburb racial segregation as a creation within living memory. Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xvi + pp. $ (paper), ISBN ; $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Lindsay Silver (Department of History, Brandeis University) Published on H-Pol (January, ) Babylon on the Bay. Author/Creator: Self, Robert O., author. Publication: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [] Format/Description: Book 1 online resource: 30 halftones. 8.
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. American Babylon: race and the struggle for postwar Oakland Item Preview American Babylon: race and the struggle for postwar Oakland by Self, Robert O., Robert O. Self’s study of Oakland, American Babylon, makes many of the same connections. Following the history of Oakland from the s through , Self argues that the Black Power Movement and the Conservative Movement evolved in tandem as political manifestations of the underlying contest between predominantly black inner city residents and white suburbanites.
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