Robert J. McKee

Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas

The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From 2008 to 2013, a group of African American women led a successful protest of a street closure in their community without the dominant involvement of the black church. This book explains the socio-historical context behind the formation of this community and explores the eighty years of racism and oppression suffered by African Americans in southern Nevada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780739186770
• ISBN-10: 0739186779
• Artikelnr.: 40139839

Autorenporträt

By Robert J. McKee

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Be Careful, it's the Westside Chapter Two: Welcome to Historic
West Las Vegas Chapter Three: Women Shouldn't Be Doing That Sort of Thing
Chapter Four: They Want to Wall You Off Chapter Five: Mayor Goodman, Tear
Down This Wall! Chapter Six: A Horrible Waste of Money Chapter Seven:
Symbolic Meanings of Physical Boundaries Chapter Eight: And the Wall Came
Tumbling Down