| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II. By Kevin Allen Leonard. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xii, 360 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4047-4.)

As home to large populations of Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans, Los Angeles has long been a theater for racial conflicts that have their origins in local issues, but derive their vehemence from national anxieties. Kevin Allen Leonard's skillful analysis of wartime racial discourse—when Angelenos "created and remade ['race'] in the public debates about the meanings of differences among people"—documents a home front battle to assert competing racial ideologies (p. 5). He locates battle lines between the government and the grassroots, within and among ethnic communities, and in the internal worlds of thousands of Californians, including Governor and later Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was instrumental in both Japanese American internment and the antisegregationist Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954.

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