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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends
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Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
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Edition:
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Series:
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Historical Studies of Urban America
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Creators:
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Charlotte Brooks
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Publisher:
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University of Chicago Press
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Imprint:
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Pub. date:
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05/01/2009
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Lib. SRP:
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45.00 USD
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Ret. SRP:
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25.00 USD
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Format:
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Adobe PDF eBook
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ISBN:
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9780226075990
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DRM Level:
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Adobe Content Server 4
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Min. Version:
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Adobe Digital Editions
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File size:
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3513 KB
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Languages:
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English
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Subjects:
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History, Sociology, Nonfiction
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Keywords:
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Professional and Scholarly
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Awards:
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Short Description:
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Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets, arguing that the perceived foreignness of Asian Americans, which initially stranded them in segregated areas, eventually facilitated their integration into neighborhoods that rejected other minorities. Against the backdrop of cold war efforts to win Asian hearts and minds, whites who saw little difference between Asians and Asian Americans increasingly advocated the latter group's access to middle-class life and the residential areas that went with it. But as they transformed Asian Americans into a "model minority," whites purposefully ignored the long backstory of Chinese and Japanese Americans' early and largely failed attempts to participate in public and private housing programs. As Brooks tells...
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Full Description:
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Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets, arguing that the perceived foreignness of Asian Americans, which initially stranded them in segregated areas, eventually facilitated their integration into neighborhoods that rejected other minorities. Against the backdrop of cold war efforts to win Asian hearts and minds, whites who saw little difference between Asians and Asian Americans increasingly advocated the latter group's access to middle-class life and the residential areas that went with it. But as they transformed Asian Americans into a "model minority," whites purposefully ignored the long backstory of Chinese and Japanese Americans' early and largely failed attempts to participate in public and private housing programs. As Brooks tells this multifaceted story, she draws on a broad range of sources in multiple languages, giving voice to an array of community leaders, journalists, activists, and homeowners—and insightfully conveying the complexity of racialized housing in a multiracial society.
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Synopsis:
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Table of Contents:
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Alien Neighbors Chapter 1 Chinatown, San Francisco: America's First Segregated Neighborhood Chapter 2 Los Angeles: America's "White Spot" Chapter 3 The New Deal's Third Track: Asian American Citizenship and Public Housing in Depression-Era Los Angeles Chapter 4 "Housing Seems to Be the Problem": Asian Americans and New Deal Housing Programs in San Francisco Chapter 5 The Subdivision and the War: From Jefferson Park to Internment Part II. Foreign Friends Chapter 6 "Glorified and Mounted on a Pedestal": San Francisco Chinatown at War Chapter 7 Equally Unequal: Asian Americans and the Fight for Housing Rights in Postwar California Chapter 8 "The Orientals Whose Friendship Is So Important": Asian Americans and the Values of Property in Cold War California Epilogue Notes Index
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Creator Marketing:
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Charlotte Brooks
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Charlotte Brooks is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights:
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Copying allowed, 5 selections every 7 days |
Printing allowed, 30 pages every 7 days |
Lending not allowed |
Reading aloud allowed |
Geographic Rights:
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World-wide
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