| Bill Mullen - 1999 - 260 páginas
...Horne, the black actors and actresses were refused service in the MGM commissary where everyone ate. The difference was that the white people of Los Angeles seemed to be saying, "Nigger, ain't we good to you?"44 The dimensions of Himes's wartime conversion to "race consciousness" resulting from these hostile... | |
| Josh Sides - 2003 - 310 páginas
...discrimination in a city fabled for its relatively moderate racial climate: trial city of the South. . . . The difference was that the white people of Los Angeles...seemed to be saying, "Nigger, ain't we good to you?" 67 For Himes, perhaps nothing was more frustrating than his inability to find a job commensurate with... | |
| Josh Sides - 2004 - 310 páginas
...me. Black people were treated much the same as they were in any industrial city of the South. . . . The difference was that the white people of Los Angeles seemed to be saying, "Nigger, ain't we good to you?"67 For Himes, perhaps nothing was more frustrating than his inability to find a job commensurate... | |
| Peniel E. Joseph - 2006 - 410 páginas
...were treated much the same as they were in any industrial city of the South — The difference was the white people of Los Angeles seemed to be saying, "Nigger, ain't we good to you?" — Chester Himes, African American novelist who moved to Los Angeles in 19412 California is a state... | |
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