From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells...
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians unions, through the development of communi...
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells...
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians unions, through the development of communi...
