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Street meeting : multiethnic neighborhoods in early twentieth-century Los Angeles /

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 resi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wild, Mark, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Familiarity of "Foreign Quarters": The Central Los Angeles Populace
  • 2. Building the White Spot of America: The Corporate Reconstruction of Ethnoracial Los Angeles
  • 3. The Church of All Nations and the Quest for "Indigenous Immigrant Communities"
  • 4. "So Many Children at Once and So Many Kinds": The World of Central City Children
  • 5. Mixed Couples: Love, Sex, and Marriage across Ethnoracial Lines
  • 6. Preaching to Mixed Crowds: Ethnoracial Coalitions and the Political Culture of Street Speaking
  • 7. 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