Streets of San Francisco
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1960s
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african american gang leaders
Author_Christopher Lowen Agee
bar owners
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chinese entrepreneurs
civil rights
crime
criminology
democracy
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diversity
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financial district
free speech
gay
government
haight-ashbury hippies
historical studies
law enforcement
lesbian
lgbtqia
liberalism
liberals
local politics
north beach beats
police force
policing
san francisco
sexual liberation
sexually explicit works
social issues
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street-level interactions
united states
urban america
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- ISBN 9780226122281
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2014
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal," known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in the years right after World War II was mostly confined to notions of state welfare and business regulation. It wasn't until the 1950s and 1960s, when new peoples and cultures poured into the city, that San Francisco produced a new liberal politics. Christopher Lowen Agee details this fascinating transition in The Streets of San Francisco, focusing in particular on the crucial role the police played during this cultural and political shift. He partly attributes the creation and survival of cosmopolitan liberalism to the police's new authority to use their discretion when interacting with African American gang leaders, gay and lesbian bar owners, Haight-Ashbury hippies, artists who created sexually explicit works, Chinese American entrepreneurs, and a host of other postwar San Franciscans. In thus emboldening rank-and-file police officers, Agee shows, the city created partners in democratic governance.
The success of this model in San Francisco resulted in the rise of cosmopolitan liberal coalitions throughout the country. Today, liberal cities across America ground themselves in similar understandings of democracy through an emphasis on both broad diversity and strong policing.
Christopher Lowen Agee is assistant professor in the history department at the University of Colorado Denver.
