CHARLOTTE BROOKS. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 329. $40.00.
DOUGLAS FLAMMING. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press with the George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies. 2005. Pp. xviii, 467. $29.95.