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Author Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964-

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

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
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 Moore Stacks  F869.L89 A2535 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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".
Subject Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
California -- Los Angeles.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Los Angeles.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects.
World War (1939-1945)
Social aspects.
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Japanese Americans.
Social conditions.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans.
African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Racism.
ISBN 0826340474 cloth alkaline paper
9780826340474 cloth alkaline paper

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