The Albert J. Beveridge Award is awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for the best English-language book on American history from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge (1862-1927) of Indiana,former secretary and longtime member of the Association,through a gift from his wife,Catherine Eddy Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state. The award has been given annually since 1945.
Universal manhood suffrage is a form of voting rights in which all adult male citizens within a political system are allowed to vote,regardless of income,property,religion,race,or any other qualification. It is sometimes summarized by the slogan,"one man,one vote".
Crenshaw,or the Crenshaw District,is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles,California.
The California Alien Land Law of 1913 prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases over it,but permitted leases lasting up to three years. It affected the Chinese,Indian,Japanese,and Korean immigrant farmers in California. Implicitly,the law was primarily directed at the Japanese. It passed 35–2 in the State Senate and 72–3 in the State Assembly and was co-written by attorney Francis J. Heney and California state attorney general Ulysses S. Webb at the behest of Governor Hiram Johnson. Japan's Consul General Kametaro Iijima and lawyer Juichi Soyeda lobbied against the law. In a letter to the United States Secretary of State,the Japanese government via the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs called the law "essentially unfair and inconsistent... with the sentiments of amity and good neighborhood which have presided over the relations between the two countries," and noted that Japan felt it was "in disregard of the spirit of the existing treaty between Japan and the United States." The law was meant to discourage immigration from Asia,and to create an inhospitable climate for immigrants already living in California.
Paul Samuel Reinsch,was an American political scientist and diplomat. He played an influential role in developing the field of international relations.
James Boggs was an American political activist,auto worker and author. He was married to philosopher activist Grace Lee Boggs for forty years until his death.
The California Eagle (1879–1964) was a newspaper in Los Angeles for African Americans. It was founded as The Owl in 1879 and later The Eagle by John J. Neimore. Charlotta Bass became owner of the paper after Neimore's death in 1912. She owned and operated the paper,renamed the California Eagle,until 1951. Her husband,J. B. Bass,served as editor until his death in 1934. In the 1920s,they increased circulation to 60,000. Bass was also active as a civil rights campaigner in Los Angeles,working to end segregation in jobs,housing and transportation.
Thomas J. Sugrue is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University. From 1991 to 2015,he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. His areas of expertise include American urban history,American political history,housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism,on housing and real estate,on poverty and public policy,on civil rights,and on the history of affirmative action.
Eiichiro Azuma is a Japanese-born American historian,writer,and professor. He has served as a Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of his work is Japanese Americans in relationship to migration,Japanese colonialism,and U.S. and Japan relations.
Grace Lee Boggs was an American author,social activist,philosopher,and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s,she and James Boggs,her husband of some forty years,took their own political direction. By 1998,she had written four books,including an autobiography. In 2011,still active at the age of 95,she wrote a fifth book,The Next American Revolution:Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century,with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American,Black Power,and Civil Rights movements.
Cyril Lionel Robert James,who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson,was a Trinidadian historian,journalist,Trotskyist activist and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various theoretical,social,and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of Marxism,and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. A tireless political activist,James is the author of the 1937 work World Revolution outlining the history of the Communist International,which stirred debate in Trotskyist circles,and in 1938 he wrote on the Haitian Revolution,The Black Jacobins.
There is a Japanese American and a Japanese national population in Los Angeles and Greater Los Angeles. Japanese people began arriving in the United States in the late 1800s and have settled in places like Hawaii,Alaska,and California. Los Angeles has become a hub for people of Japanese descent for generations in areas like Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights. As of 2017,Los Angeles has a Japanese and Japanese American population of around 110,000 people.
The History of African Americans in Los Angeles includes participation in the culture,education,and politics of the city of Los Angeles,California,United States.
The Asian American Movement was a sociopolitical movement in which the widespread grassroots effort of Asian Americans affected racial,social and political change in the U.S.,reaching its peak in the late 1960s to mid-1970s. During this period Asian Americans promoted anti-war and anti-imperialist activism,directly opposing what was viewed as an unjust Vietnam war. The American Asian Movement (AAM) differs from previous Asian American activism due to its emphasis on Pan-Asianism and its solidarity with U.S. and international Third World movements such as the Third World Liberation Front.
This is a bibliography of Los Angeles,California. It includes books specifically about the city and county of Los Angeles and more generally the Greater Los Angeles Area. The list includes both non-fiction and notable works of fiction that significantly relate to the region. The list does not include annual travel books,recipe books,and currently does not contain works about sports in the region.
American Revolutionary:The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs is a 2013 American biographical documentary film directed by Grace Lee.
The Shifting Grounds of Race:Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles is a nonfiction book by Scott Kurashige,published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. It discusses interactions between African Americans and Japanese Americans in the Los Angeles area from the 1920s through the 1990s. Kurashige argued that the distinct civil rights' movements of both the African-Americans and the Japanese Americans in Los Angeles were affected by the "shifting grounds of race";aspects of their movements overlapped but they used distinct methods and strategies. On many occasions members of the two ethnic groups lived in proximity to one another. Japanese people focused on business as they were unable to participate in politics,since they were not U.S. citizens. African-Americans,who were U.S. citizens,were able to participate in politics while having less footing in the business world. The focus on black-Japanese relations is distinct from the usual tendency of race-related nonfiction works to focus on white-black relations. Kurashige emphasized the presence of "triangular relations" among blacks,Japanese,and the politically dominant white political center.
Daphne Brooks is an American writer and black studies scholar who is William R. Kenan,Jr. professor of African American studies,American Studies,Women's,Gender and Sexuality Studies and Music at Yale University;she is also director of graduate studies. She specializes in African American literary cultural performance studies,especially 19th century and trans-Atlantic culture. She is a rock music lover and has attributed her research interests in black performance to being a fan of rock music since a very young age.
Adrienne Maree Brown,often styled adrienne maree brown,is a writer,activist and facilitator. From 2006 to 2010,she was executive director of the Ruckus Society. She also co-founded and directed the United States League of Young Voters.
Detroit Summer is a multi-racial and intergenerational collective based at The Boggs Center in Detroit,Michigan,with the goal to empower local youth to improve their communities. The program was founded in 1992 by James Boggs,Grace Lee Boggs,Shea Howell,and others. This also coincided with the founding of the Boggs Center.
