This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles,

perfect for Dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is City of Segregation

100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles

by Andrea Gibbons.

City of Segregation documents 100 years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups

through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism.

This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in

1948, the 1960 Civil Rights Movement and Corps effort to integrate L.A.'s white suburbs. And the 2006

victory, preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification, enfolded with an ongoing resistance to the criminalization

and displacement of the homeless.

Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of the racist ideology that must be fought in Los Angeles and across the United States

if we hope to found just cities.

City of segregation, 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles, by Andrea Gibbons,

out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackbine magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Black Lives Matter is obviously a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation.

But it's also shorthand for a huge array of organizations

nationwide, mostly led by people that you've never heard of,

working the daily hard grind of ordinary

organizing that stitches together spectacular mass actions into a movement.

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