Books & Big Ideas: The Coveted Westside with Jennifer Mandel

This is a hybrid event. Guests are welcome to attend in-person in the library Community Room or tune in via Zoom. Click here to register for the Zoom link.

This spring/summer, join your friends and neighbors for a Books & Big Ideas author event. Each event will provide readers with an opportunity to meet the authors, ask questions, and have in-depth discussions about the selected titles. This spring and summer, we are exploring the topics of housing insecurity and the importance of "home". Through these stories, we aim to enrich the discussion about affordable housing and its place in our community.

Join Author Jennifer Mandel for a discussion about her book and to learn about discriminatory housing practices that segregated American cities. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including oral histories, census records, manuscript collections, legal cases, and newspaper reports, Mandel pieces together middle-class African Americans’ challenge to discriminatory housing practices and policies in 20th Century Los Angeles at the grassroots and judicial levels to reside in some of the city’s most valuable neighborhoods.