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Recommended Reading Lists
Looking to dive more into researching a specific topic? Check out some of our curated reading lists complete with convenient Amazon links that include recommendations from Museum Staff and Historians.
Corbin, Alain. The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Culver, Lawrence. The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Davidson, Ronald A. “Before ‘Surfurbia’: The Development of the South Bay Beach Cities through the 1930s,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 66 (2004): 80-94.
De Graaf, Lawrence B. “The City of Black Angels: Emergence of the Los Angeles Ghetto.” Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 3 (1970): 323-352.
Devienne, Elsa. Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.
García, David G. Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.
Jefferson, Alison R. Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Lytle Hernandez, Kelly. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
“Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America.” Mapping Inequality. University of Richmond. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining
Matsumoto, Valerie J. City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California. Edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage and University of Washington Press, 2001.
Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Westwick, Peter, and Peter Neushul. The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013.