6. The Politics of Low and Slow/Bajito y Suavecito: Black and Chicano Lowriders in Los Angeles, from the 1960s through the 1970s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES
7. 1. Keeping It Real: Demographic Change, Economic Conflict, and Interethnic Organizing for Social Justice in Los Angeles 33
8. 2. Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants’ Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970– 2007 67
9. 3. Black Views toward Proposed Undocumented Immigration Policies: The Role of Racial Stereotypes and Economic Competition 90
10. PART TWO. URBAN HISTORIES
11. 4. The Changing Valence of White Racial Innocence: Black-Brown Unity in the 1970s Los Angeles School Desegregation Struggles 115
12. 5. Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles 143
13. 6. The Politics of Low and Slow/Bajito y Suavecito: Black and Chicano Lowriders in Los Angeles, from the 1960s through the 1970s 176
14. PART THREE. COMMUNITY LIFE AND POLITICS
15. 7. Rainbow Coalition in the Golden State? Exposing Myths, Uncovering New Realities in Latino Attitudes toward Blacks 203
16. 8. Race and the L.A. Human: Race Relations and Violence in Globalized Los Angeles 233
17. PART FOUR. REPORTING BLACK AND BROWN L.A.: A JOURNALIST ’S VIEW
18. 9. More Than Just the Latinos-Next-Door; Piercing Black Silence on Immigration; and Plugging Immigration’s Drain on Black Employment 255
19. 10. Race, Real Estate, and the Mexican Mafia: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields 261
20. PART FIVE. CITY CULTURES
21. 11. Landscapes of Black and Brown Los Angeles: A Photo Essay 301
22. 12. Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Sonic Reclamation in Postwar Los Angeles 316
23. 13. On Fallen Nature and the Two Cities 341
24. 14. “Just Win, Baby!” The Raider Nation and Second Chances for Black and Brown L.A. 346
25. 15. What Is an MC If He Can’t Rap to Banda? Making Music in Nuevo L.A. 373
26. List of Contributors 395
27. Index 399