"This is a great book. It will be a contribution not only to the academic world but also to the movements and communities in Southern California. It is pacesetting and especially needed now, when everything is being done to divide our movements."--José Zapata Calderón, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Pitzer College, and editor of Lessons from an Activist Intellectual: Teaching, Research, and Organizing for Social Change " In the Shadows of Los Angeles fills a massive gap in the historiography of Black and Chicano/Latino experiences in suburbia. Gilda L. Ochoa's excellent comparative scholarship complicates existing narratives and assumptions about this time period and region. This work is warmly welcomed on my bookshelf."--James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.

A. "Ochoa carefully excavates the suburban civil rights struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, illuminating how Black communities fought for self-determination and challenged white supremacist institutions, at times in solidarity with Mexican Americans and other allies. In the Shadows of Los Angeles expands on prevailing conceptualizations of political activism to center community care, belonging, and organizing led by women and young people. This book offers a powerful model for countering Black erasure in suburban historical narratives, uncovering hidden histories, and deepening our understanding of past struggles and those that remain."--Veronica Terriquez, Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Learning to Lead: Youth Organizing in Immigrant Communities.