Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era Artist Editions ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1957891439

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1957891439

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Todd Boyd re-examines hip hop’s legacy and how the genre remixes ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture

The first comprises seven essays that serve as an interpretive framework for the exhibition

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era Artist Editions ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1957891439As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of Black identity on the regional landscape and social space. In Living the California Dream, Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African