Alien neighbors, foreign friends : Asian Americans, housing, and the transformation of urban California / Charlotte Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Charlotte, 1971-

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--California--History--20th century.

Discrimination in housing.

Asian Americans--Housing--California--History--20th century.

Asian Americans.

Metropolitan areas--California--History--20th century.

Metropolitan areas.

Asian Americans--California--Public opinion--History--20th century.

Political culture--United States--History--20th century.

Political culture.

Public opinion.

History.

Asian Americans--Housing.

United States.

California.

Physical Description:

xv, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Contents:

Part I Alien Neighbors

1 Chinatown, San Francisco: The First Segregated Neighborhood in America 11

2 Los Angeles: America's "White Spot" 39

3 The New Deal's Third Track: Asian American Citizenship and Public Housing in Depression-Era Los Angeles 70

4 "Housing Seems to Be the Problem": Asian Americans and New Deal Housing Programs in San Francisco 86

5 The Subdivision and the War: From Jefferson Park to Internment 114

Part II Foreign Friends

6 "Glorified and Mounted on a Pedestal": San Francisco Chinatown at War 135

7 Becoming Equally Unequal: The Fight for Property and Housing Rights in Postwar California 159

8 "The Orientals Whose Friendship Is So Important": Asian Americans and the Values of Property in Cold War California 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-310) and index.

ISBN:

9780226075976

0226075974

OCLC:

233798835