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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. Illustrations, notes, index, $34.95.)
      Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and thoughtful, The Battle for Los Angeles explores how racial ideologies circulated and shifted in the City of the Angels during the Second World War. Leonard believes that these verbal conflicts about what race meant, its transformation from being biologically deterministic to more fluid social constructions, constituted a battle. Consequently, the crux of the book examines how the meanings of race changed through an examination of the debates around what it meant to be Japanese in light of internment, and to a lesser extent, the place of Mexicans within the racial landscape that came to the forefront due to disputes over juvenile delinquency and via landmark events, such as the Sleepy Lagoon case and the Zoot-Suit Riots. . . .
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