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An Interview with Alison Rose Jefferson By Brian Tanguay | California Review of Books February 24, 2024. When Alison Rose Jefferson was a graduate student at USC she studied under the late Kevin Starr, probably the best known historian of California. Like Starr’s, Jefferson’s family has deep roots in California. Read the interview here.
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Jefferson Airplane's references to black culture and politics were multifaceted and involved both condescending or naïve radical posturing and sincere respect for African American music. The Airplane appear to have been engaged in a complex if imperfect attempt to create a contemporary musical form that reflected African American influences without asserting dominance over those influences.
Join the project historian and artist on February 16, 2021 for a discussion about the history and new art commemorating South Santa Monica African American neighborhoods, including Historic Belmar Park, a once-thriving community that was displaced in the 1950s. Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s ...
Los Angeles City Historical Society Webinar from November 18, 2020A presentation with Alison Rose Jefferson, M.H.C. | Ph.D. In her presentation, Jefferson wi...
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Nov 29, 2022 · In Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, Alison Rose Jefferson has captured a powerful history that was in danger of being lost. She has effectively preserved the public memory of African American leisure sites during the Jim Crow era.
Alison Rose Jefferson is a publicly engaged independent historian, heritage conservation consultant and a third generation Californian. Presently her research and professional interest revolve around the intersection of historical memory, American history, the history of the African American experience in Southern California during the ...
