Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art works that spoke to African American migration and L.A.'s racial politics.

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. South of Pico: Migration, Art, and Black Los Angeles  1
1. Emerge: Putting Southern California on the Art World Map  23
2. Claim: Assemblage and Self-Possession  67
3. Organize: Building an Exhibitionary Complex  139
4. In Motion: The Performative Impulse  185
Conclusion. Noshun: Black Los Angeles and the Global Imagination  265
Notes  277
Selected Bibliography  359
Index  379