La question raciale sur le littoral de Los Angeles (années 1920-années 1970) [Racial Issues on the Beaches of Los Angeles (1920s–1970s)]

Devienne, Elsa (2016) La question raciale sur le littoral de Los Angeles (années 1920-années 1970) [Racial Issues on the Beaches of Los Angeles (1920s–1970s)]. Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, 131 (3). pp. 109-124. ISSN 0294-1759

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Abstract

While Los Angeles’s beaches were officially desegregated in 1927, informal segregation persisted throughout the 20th century, either through violence or subtle territorial strategies. African Americans and Latinos nonetheless asserted their “right to the beach” by using diverse tactics, from founding a private beach club to fighting back against their aggressors. In the postwar era, racial minorities were more numerous at the beach and were consequently subject to intense police surveillance – while simultaneously, municipalities attempted to get rid of the last, now shameful traces of racial segregation along the shore. By looking at racial relations on urban beaches, a kind of leisure space that is rarely studied by historians, this article sheds light on the multiple spatial strategies used to contain and exclude people or, on the contrary, to subvert racial boundaries.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	segregation, race, beach, Los Angeles, African Americans
Subjects:	L700 Human and Social Geography V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2019 10:59
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 14:47
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40917

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