ePub Black; Brown; Yellow; and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (American Crossroads) by Laura Pulido in History

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Peter Schrag takes on the big issues—immigration; globalization; and the impact of California's politics on its quality of life—in this dynamic account of the Golden State's struggle to recapture the American dream. In the past half-century; California has been both model and anti-model for the nation and often the world; first for its high level of government and public services—schools; universities; highways—and latterly for its dysfunctional government; deteriorating services; and sometimes regressive public policies. California explains how many current "solutions" exacerbate the very problems they're supposed to solve and analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore government accountability and a vital democracy to the nation's most populous state and the world's fifth-largest economy.