20th century american culture
20th century american history
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african americans
anthropology
asian americans
Author_Allison Varzally
california
Category=JBSL
Category=NHK
city spaces
cultural studies
discrimination
diversity
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ethnic group
ethnicity
history
interethnic coalitions
interracial relationships
jewish americans
mexican americans
minority groups
national conceptions
native americans
race in america
racism
society
united states of america
urban spaces
Product details
- ISBN 9780520253452
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Allison Varzally is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.
