The battle for Los Angeles : racial ideology and World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard.

Author/creator Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Descriptionxii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Racism--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--California. --Los Angeles.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects.
Japanese Americans--California. --Los Angeles. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Mexican Americans--California. --Los Angeles. --Social conditions. --20th century.
African Americans--California. --Los Angeles. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

Contents "This fair land where the East meets the West" : "race" in Los Angeles before Pearl Harbor -- "While we are at war with their race" : Pearl Harbor, "race," and Japanese Americans -- "Due to social factors rather than to biologically inherited traits" : "race," Mexican Americans, and juvenile delinquency -- "Every person with Jap blood in his veins" : "race" and Japanese Americans from sleepy lagoon to the zoot-suit riots -- "A criminal is not a criminal because of race" : "race" and the zoot-suit riots -- "The long day of the Jap-baiter in California politics appears to have ended" : Japanese Americans and "race" in Los Angeles, 1943-1945 -- "A group of termites indoctrinated with an atheistic, totalitarian foreign ideology" : the Cold War and the transformation of the "battle for Los Angeles".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-349) and index.
LCCN 2006008564
ISBN0826340474 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780826340474