Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Name: Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
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ISBN: 9780226075976

ISBN-10: 0226075974

ISBN-13: 9780226075976

Edition: 2009

Authors: Charlotte Brooks, C. Brooks

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Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Charlotte Brooks is associate professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Alien Neighbors



Chinatown, San Francisco: The First Segregated Neighborhood in America



Los Angeles: America's "White Spot"



The New Deal's Third Track: Asian American Citizenship and Public Housing in Depression-Era Los Angeles



"Housing Seems to Be the Problem": Asian Americans and New Deal Housing Programs in San Francisco



The Subdivision and the War: From Jefferson Park to Internment



Foreign Friends



"Glorified and Mounted on a Pedestal": San Francisco Chinatown at War



Becoming Equally Unequal: The Fight for Property and Housing Rights in Postwar California



"The Orientals Whose Friendship Is So Important": Asian Americans and the Values of Property in Cold War California


Epilogue


Notes


Index