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Contains essays, reports, vignettes, oral histories, and autobiographies examining the daily lives of African Americans in Los Angeles.

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

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