| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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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. xiv, 315 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-23618-1.)

Oakland, California, has long remained hidden by the shadows of its more showy neighbors: cosmopolitan San Francisco and activist Berkeley. Although aspects of the city's history have been aptly covered by scholars such as Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo and Marilynn S. Johnson, Oakland has been largely overlooked by the wave of local studies monographs that have reinvigorated the study of the American city in the past two decades. Chris Rhomberg's No There There joins Robert O. Self's American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003) in analyzing race and class politics in twentieth-century Oakland, challenging the stereotype that Oakland was "a city with no there there, a nonplace where nothing ever really happens" (p. ix).

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