He also started working alongside the leaders of the gang truce to advocate for reinvestment in South L.A.Īn astonishing run of more than a dozen books followed, oscillating between critiques and histories of the American West and sweeping historical analyses of how climate disaster, capitalism and colonialism have ground the global poor between their gears and set us up for future calamity (including global viral pandemics, predicted in 2005’s “The Monster at Our Door”).
Davis looked like a seer, though he said the simmering rage was obvious to anyone who got out of their car. Eighteen months later, in April ’92, the city exploded. It also warned another conflagration, Watts 2.0, could be on the horizon. as a corrupt machine built to enrich its elite while the white supremacist LAPD served as attack dogs to beat, jail and kill troublemakers. The book, required reading for anyone who wants to understand the city, detailed a history of L.A. solidarity and the Black Radical Tradition.īut the story that put Davis on the cultural map, laid out in his 1990 bestseller “City of Quartz,” is the story of Los Angeles. Kelley’s radical imagination shows us the way
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