| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. By Laura Pulido. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xvi, 346 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-24519-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-520-24520-2.)
Laura Pulido notes, "Popular depictions of sixties radicalism, as seen in movies such as The Big Chill and Forrest Gump, tend to reduce political activism to rallies, marches, and speeches" (p. 123). These movies also focus on white, middle-class radicals, while Pulido explores sixties radicals of color.	1
Pulido begins with an excellent survey of communities of color in Los Angeles, where minority communities were variously uplifted and then downgraded. African Americans once viewed Los Angeles as a paradise, but by the 1960s were ready to take to the streets. Asian Americans, once the region's most despised minority, found themselves labeled "model minorities" as a wedge against blacks and Latinos. Latinos moved from invisibility to today's central focus.	2
Some activists in those communities of color felt at home with revolutionary doctrines. White-led radical movements such as Students for a Democratic Society (sds) rarely connected with minority activists. White feminists puzzled over how to handle minority women who, though politically radical, dedicated themselves to enhancing the status of minority men.	. . .

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