| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland. By Chris Rhomberg. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

In No There There, historical sociologist Chris Rhomberg analyzes the rise and fall of three social movements in the context of Oakland's history: the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the labor movement in the 1930s and 1940s, and the Black Power movement of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The discontinuity of these social movements is what intrigues Rhomberg. What does the fact that these very different social movements occurred in the same city tell us? What economic, political, and social realities contributed to the rapid mobilization and decline of these movements? What do they tell us about Oakland's civil society?

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