My Los Angeles in Black & (Almost) White

by Andrew Furman

Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman's high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embroiled in efforts to desegregate its public school district, one of the largest and most segregated in the country. Tensions came to a head in the late 1970s as the state implemented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609590
• ISBN13: 9780815609599
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"