The battle for Los Angeles : racial ideology and World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. Racism > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > California > Los Angeles. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects. Japanese Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 20th century. Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 20th century. African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 20th century. Racisme > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siècle. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Californie > Los Angeles. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social. Américains d'origine japonaise > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle. Américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle. Noirs américains > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle. African Americans > Social conditions. Japanese Americans > Social conditions. Mexican Americans > Social conditions. Race relations. Racism. Social aspects. California > Los Angeles. Mexikaner Rassismus Schwarze Weltkrieg > 1939-1945 Los Angeles, Calif. Ethnische Beziehungen Schwärze Mexikaner. 1900-1999 History.
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Table of 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."