Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era desk accessories and pieces of sound advice

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we reveal the behind-the-scenes narratives that bring these partnerships to life

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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era desk accessories and pieces of sound adviceAs Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of Black identity on the regional landscape and social space. In Living the California Dream, Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African