| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. By Robert O. Self. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xviii, 386 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-07026-1.)

Building on the pathbreaking scholarship of Kenneth Jackson and Thomas Sugrue, Robert O. Self has offered an original and complex explanation for the urban crisis that transformed Oakland, California, from 1945 to 1978. American Babylon breaks new ground in several important areas, and Self, unlike most urban historians, extends his analysis through the modern civil rights era. American Babylon concludes in 1978, the year that California voters passed Proposition 13, the most significant tax reform measure in the nation.

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