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Making a non-White America : Californians coloring outside ethnic lines, 1925-1955 /
What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative yea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative years of the twentieth century. In a lively account, woven throughout with vivid voices and experiences drawn from interviews, ethnic newspapers, and memoirs, Allison Varzally examines everyday interactions among the Asian, Mexican, African, Native, and Jewish Americans, and others who lived side by side. What she finds is that in shared city spaces across California, these diverse groups mixed and mingled as students, lovers, worshippers, workers, and family members and, along the way, expanded and reconfigured ethnic and racial categories in new directions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520941276 9780520941274 9780520243452 1281385689 9781281385680 9786611385682 6611385681 1435653742 9781435653740 9780520243453 0520243455 |