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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 Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Melinda Cooper argues that the right-wing's culture wars are not just, quote, flotsam and jetsam floating above the real story of monumental

wealth redistribution in class warfare. In her book family values between

neoliberalism and the new social conservatism.

Cooper tells a number of detailed histories to make the case that

neoliberalism and social conservatism have been consistent collaborators in creating an economy that redistributes wealth ruthlessly upwards

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