Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

by Daniel Widener

From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism--Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346796
• ISBN13: 9780822346791
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"