Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities, a groundbreaking book published by the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, presents a multidisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of black life in Los Angeles. In the chapter “Common Cause for a Justice Society,” by Lola Smallwood Cuevas, UCLA Labor Center; Lanita Morris, UCLA Labor Center; Josh Bloom, UCLA doctoral candidate; Steven Pitts, UC Berkeley Labor Center; and Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside, the authors track the history of black workers in Los Angeles, their controversial yet necessary relationship to labor, and innovative projects that seek to rewrite the community-labor alliances in black Los Angeles.