Street Meeting Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

Name: Street Meeting Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780520256354

ISBN-10: 0520256352

ISBN-13: 9780520256354

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mark Wild

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Immigrant neighborhoods of the early twentieth century have commonly been viewed as segregated, homogeneous slums isolated from the larger "American" city. But as Mark Wild demonstrates in this new study of Los Angeles, such districts often nurtured dynamic, diverse environments where residents interacted with individuals of other races and cultures. In fact, as his engaging account makes clear, between 1900 and 1940 such multiethnic areas mushroomed in Los Angeles.Street Meeting,enriched with oral histories, reminiscences, newspaper reports, and other sources, examines interactions among working-class Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Italians, African Americans, and others, reminding us…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 309
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Familiarity of "Foreign Quarters": The Central Los Angeles Populace



Building the White Spot of America: The Corporate Reconstruction of Ethnoracial Los Angeles



The Church of All Nations and the Quest for "Indigenous Immigrant Communities"



"So Many Children at Once and So Many Kinds": The World of Central City Children



Mixed Couples: Love, Sex, and Marriage across Ethnoracial Lines



Preaching to Mixed Crowds: Ethnoracial Coalitions and the Political Culture of Street Speaking



The Streets Run Red: The Communist Party and the Resurgence of Coalition Street Politics


Conclusion. From Central Neighborhood to Inner City: The Triumph of Corporate Liberal Urbanization


Notes


Bibliography


Index