Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader is an innovative collaboration between scholars, activists, artists, and students to explore the struggles against displacement, misrepresentation, and civil rights violations in Los Angeles' Skid Row. Contributors include Robin D.G. Kelley, Cedric J. Robinson, Clyde Woods, Don Mitchell, LisaGay Hamilton, Gary Blasi, Damien Schnyder and the artwork of Art Hazelwood.