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Josh Sides is the Whitsett Professor of California History and the Director of the Center for Southern California Studies at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles, California. Josh took his PhD in American History at the University of California Los Angeles in 1999, and in 2000, his dissertation won the Jackson Award for the best dissertation in Western History from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. He then served for one year as the Kevin Starr Fellow in California History at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He published numerous articles on the history of African Americans in the West as well as his first book, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). His writing has appeared in Business History Review, Labor History, Law and History Review, Next American City, Journal of Urban History, Pacific Historical Review, American Quarterly, the Los Angeles Times and several anthologies. His second book, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco will be published by Oxford University Press in Fall of 2009.