Making a Non-White America - Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25345-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varzally, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. California Crossroads
2. Young Travelers
3. Guess Who's Joining Us for Dinner?
4. Banding Together in Crisis
5. Minority Brothers in Arms
6. Panethnic Politics Arising from the Everyday

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Allison Varzally is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.