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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era sterling silver ®” line of rings andAs Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of Black identity on the regional landscape and social space. In Living the California Dream, Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African