Immigrant neighborhoods of the early twentieth century have commonly been viewed as segregated, homogeneous slums isolated from the larger "American" city. But as Mark Wild demonstrates in this new study of Los Angeles, such districts often nurtured dynamic, diverse environments where residents interacted with individuals of other races and cultures. In fact, as his engaging account makes clear, between 1900 and 1940 such multiethnic areas mushroomed in Los Angeles. Street Meeting, enriched with oral histories, reminiscences, newspaper reports, and other sources, examines interactions among working-class Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Italians, African Americans, and others, reminding us that Los Angeles has been a multiethnic city since its birth. This study further argues that these ethnic interactions played a crucial role in the urban development of the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century.
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"This insightful analysis of ethnoracial contact and social networks among immigrants and racial groups in the central districts of Los Angeles is the product of new thinking. Wildís conclusions are fresh and sound."--Tom Sitton, coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s
"This stimulating and exciting book is a work of synthesis that draws on dozens of previous theses and studies, as well as reminiscences, oral histories, testimony, and other first-person accounts. The result is an original and persuasive interpretation of the West's most important city."--Carl Abbott, author of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West
"This stimulating and exciting book is a work of synthesis that draws on dozens of previous theses and studies, as well as reminiscences, oral histories, testimony, and other first-person accounts. The result is an original and persuasive interpretation of the West's most important city."--Carl Abbott, author of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West
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Mark Wild is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles.
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Passengers arriving in Los Angeles by train around 1925 received an introduction to the city's diverse working-class neighborhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many central city children, central city parents, ethnoracial relations, ethnoracial lines, ethnoracial boundaries, ethnoracial backgrounds, ethnoracial diversity, central neighborhoods, central city residents, bromley oxnam, corporate reconstruction, ethnoracial groups, street speakers, street speaking, parish residents, central city neighborhoods, street speech, interview with author, racial covenants, mixed relationships, free speech fight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Passengers arriving in Los Angeles by train around 1925 received an introduction to the city's diverse working-class neighborhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many central city children, central city parents, ethnoracial relations, ethnoracial lines, ethnoracial boundaries, ethnoracial backgrounds, ethnoracial diversity, central neighborhoods, central city residents, bromley oxnam, corporate reconstruction, ethnoracial groups, street speakers, street speaking, parish residents, central city neighborhoods, street speech, interview with author, racial covenants, mixed relationships, free speech fight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Communist Party, Boyle Heights, United States, South Central, The World of Central City Children, Pershing Square, Southern California, Skid Row, Socialist Party, Main Street, Little Tokyo, Mexican Angelenos, San Pedro, Red Squad, Central Avenue, San Francisco, Bunker Hill, Fifth Street, New York, Anglo Angelenos, Lincoln Heights, Phi Gamma, Chavez Ravine, Olvera Street New!
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