The Coveted Westside

Author : Jennifer Mandel
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790352
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coveted Westside written by Jennifer Mandel and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous inhabitants and descendants of earlier Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Coveted Westside deals with the settlement and development of Los Angeles in the context of its multiracial, multiethnic population, especially African Americans. Mandel exposes the enduring struggle between Whites determined to establish their hegemony and create residential heterogeneity in the growing city, and people of color equally determined to obtain full access to the city and the opportunities, including residential, that it offered. Not only does this book document the Black homeowners’ fight against housing discrimination, it shares personal accounts of Blacks’ efforts to settle in the highly desirable Westside of Los Angeles. Mandel explores the White-derived social and legal mechanisms that created this segregated city and the African American-led movement that challenged efforts to block access to fair housing.

Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451666217
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Outrageous Fortune written by Michael Gross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times). With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, penthouses that cost almost $100 million, and a tenant roster that’s a roll call of business page heroes and villains, Fifteen Central Park West is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. In this “stunning” (CNN) and “deliciously detailed” (Booklist, starred review) New York Times bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross “takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust” (Sam Roberts, The New York Times), whichincludes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building’s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape.

Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876663
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Side Story written by Elizabeth A. Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.

Author : Marne L. Campbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469629283
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Black Los Angeles written by Marne L. Campbell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged a vibrant community within the increasingly segregated and stratified city. In this book, historian Marne L. Campbell examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles. Expanding on the traditional narrative of middle-class uplift, Campbell demonstrates that the black working class, largely through the efforts of women, fought to secure their own economic and social freedom by forging communal bonds with black elites and other communities of color. This women-led, black working-class agency and cross-racial community building, Campbell argues, was markedly more successful in Los Angeles than in any other region in the country. Drawing from an extensive database of all African American households between 1850 and 1910, Campbell vividly tells the story of how middle-class African Americans were able to live, work, and establish a community of their own in the growing city of Los Angeles.

Author : Boyd A. Hitchner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365426149
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hitchner Biscuit Company of West Pittston Pennsylvania A Small Town Treasure written by Boyd A. Hitchner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story covers a time period from just shortly after the Civil War, until the mid twentieth century. Two Hitchner families leave their farms in rural Salem County, NJ, and travel to the booming anthracite fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. One family continues on into the wild frontier area of the Endless Mountains and vast unharvested forest of Hemlock trees. Soon the two families unite and start baking cookies and crackers for the hungry miners and lumbermen. Before long, their biscuits and cakes are being distributed in 43 states and beyond. The reader is taken on a journey of small town life with numerous photos and illustrations, many never before seen.

Author : Eddie Bopp
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452074216
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indianapolis Washington High School and the West Side written by Eddie Bopp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 68 year existence of Indianapolis Washington High School is described in a decade-by-decade history with an emphasis on people and athletics as well as focusing on individuals from the World War II and Vietnam eras. The varied lists of both a factual and subjective nature will be of interest to many in central Indiana.

Author : Bob Hamer
Publisher : Fidelis Books
ISBN 13 : 1642932752
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemies Among Us written by Bob Hamer and published by Fidelis Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When undercover FBI agent Matt Hogan totals three vehicles in an out-of-policy Beverly Hills pursuit of a fleeing Arab drug runner, he incurs the wrath of the Bureau hierarchy. To avoid an almost certain suspension, he accepts a new assignment tracking terrorist cell groups while posing as a volunteer at a nonprofit charity. What he doesn't know is the ripples of danger from this case will threaten not only his life but the safety and security of the entire nation.

Author : Frank Abial Flower
Publisher : Milwaukee : King, Fowle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1G/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the North-west written by Frank Abial Flower and published by Milwaukee : King, Fowle. This book was released on 1890 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Lee
Publisher : Key Lime Press
ISBN 13 : 0692919937
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Travel Guide to Key West written by Mark Lee and published by Key Lime Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key West is like no other city in the United States. You'd swear you need a passport to get to into this tropical paradise but all you really need is this cool guide to all the best places! Mark takes you to some of his favorite spots in Key West and in each one he gives his expert travel advice on what makes each place stand out and worth your time. He gives you a list of his go to destinations including hotels, restaurants, beaches, and bars. Wonder what there is to do in Key West? Mark let's you in on some of the hottest things to see and do! If you're traveling on a budget he's even included a chapter just for you on how to make your travel dollar go farther. Take a sunset cruise, rent a scooter, ride a jetski... it's all in here. All you need to do is book your trip and head to Key West!

Author : Bret Harte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: