| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1 | The History Cooperative

Josh Sides. L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. (The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. $39.95.
In a provocative exploration of the black experience in Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present, Josh Sides argues that, for African Americans, Los Angeles was both a destination and a dream. African Americans flocked to the city in search of escape from the bigotry and racism of the South. What they found was not the promised land. L.A. city limits, like those of the South, were geographical, political, and socioeconomic.	1
Drawing on census data, local periodicals, and oral histories, Sides assesses the motivations and expectations of southern emigrants in light of the reality they found in Los Angeles. He notes that most came resentful of southern bigotry and brutality, "enticed by well-advertised job opportunities" in defense industries, and "cautiously optimistic about the potential for racial equality in America's big cities" (p. 2). In the process of migration, they transformed the city and were transformed by living outside of the South.	. . .

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