Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s

Name: Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s
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ISBN: 9780231115933

ISBN-10: 0231115938

ISBN-13: 9780231115933

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Espana-Maram, Linda Espaï¿½a-Maram

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In this new work, Linda Espaa-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos' participation in leisure activities, including the thrills of Chinatown's gambling dens, boxing matches, and the sensual pleasures of dancing with white women in taxi dance halls sent legislators, reformers, and police forces scurrying to contain public displays of Filipino virility. But as Espaa-Maram argues, Filipino workers, by flaunting "improper" behavior, established niches of autonomy where they could defy racist attitudes and shape an immigrant identity based on youth, ethnicity, and notions of…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Linda Espana-Maram is associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Filipino Immigration to California and the Contours of Filipino Immigrant Studies



Making a Living: The Meanings of Work and the Struggles for Solidarity



Of Dice and Men: Inter-Asian Relations and the Ethnic Vice Industry in Chinatown



From the "Living Doll" to the "Bolo Puncher": Prizefighting, Masculinity, and the Sporting Life



"White Trash" and "Brown Hordes": Taxi Dance Halls and the Policing of Working-Class Bodies



The War Years: Identity Politics at the Crossroads of Spectacle, Excess, and Combat



Reformulating Communities: Filipino Los Angeles Since World War II


Notes


Bibliography


Index