"'I always felt as if I had to retain my connection to the empirical record, even as I retained my admiration for the participants. My attitude toward the people shifted from a more uncritical admiration to one of great respect.'"
Robert L. Pincus in The San Diego Union-Tribune interviews Daniel Widener, UC San Diego history professor and author of the new book Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. (And The Late Adopter's long-ago roommate.)
Saturday, May 22, 2010
"Speed, in Everything We Do, Is Not Always a Sign of Progress"
Labels:
1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
2010s,
art,
books,
California,
cultural history,
historians,
Los Angeles,
San Diego,
Widener
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