Series Editor: Eugene P. Moehring (UNLV) and Amy L. Scott (Bradley University)
Urban West examines the development of primary and secondary cities in the Trans-Mississippi West including Texas and California. The series explores issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, environment, suburbanization, municipal services, public works, community building, culture, and other relevant subjects within an urban context. All types of methodologies are welcome, but special attention will be given to those manuscripts offering important new insights, novel research approaches and sources, and comparative studies of multiple cities.
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
by Jennifer Mandel
ISBN: 9781647790349
Pub Date: 29 March 2022
Format: Paperback
372 Pages
The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city’s distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
This book examines the interplay between the city of Sacramento, California, and the Catholic Church from the city’s beginnings to the twenty-first century, to illustrate the sometimes hidden ways religious communities help form and sustain urban community.<br>
This book traces the interplay of class, gender, and politics in progressive-era Seattle, Washington during the formative period of industrialization and the establishment of a national market economy. With the rapid westward expansion of the capitalist marketplace by the dawn of the 20th century, national political and economic pressures significantly transformed both city and region. Despite the region's vast natural resources, the West had a highly urbanized population, surpassing even that of the industrial Northeast. Westerners celebrated the region's wide-open spaces, and even though a large part of the West's economy was centered in the mines, fields, and forests, most chose to live in the city. Cities thus witnessed the intersection of class, gender, and political reform as residents struggled to <br>
