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