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Author:

Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964-

Title:

The battle for Los Angeles : racial ideology and World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Racism--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects.
Japanese Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"This fair land where the East meets the West" : "race" in Los Angeles before Pearl Harbor -- "While we are at war with their race" : Pearl Harbor, "race," and Japanese Americans -- "Due to social factors rather than to biologically inherited traits" : "race," Mexican Americans, and juvenile delinquency -- "Every person with Jap blood in his veins" : "race" and Japanese Americans from sleepy lagoon to the zoot-suit riots -- "A criminal is not a criminal because of race" : "race" and the zoot-suit riots -- "The long day of the Jap-baiter in California politics appears to have ended" : Japanese Americans and "race" in Los Angeles, 1943-1945 -- "A group of termites indoctrinated with an atheistic, totalitarian foreign ideology" : the Cold War and the transformation of the "battle for Los Angeles".

ISBN:

9780826340474
9780826340474 (cloth : alk. paper)
0826340474 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65207027

LCCN:

2006008564

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)