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ISBN: 0585192138 9780585192130 0809311801 9780809311804 Year: 1985 Publisher: Carbondale [Ill.] Southern Illinois University Press


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Angel Island
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ISBN: 1280594969 9786613624796 0199750556 9780199750559 9781280594960 9780199896158 0199896151 9780199752799 0199752796 9780199734085 0199734089 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford New York

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From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The majority of newcomers came from China and Japan, but there were also immigrants from India, the Philippines, Korea, Russia, Mexico, and over seventy other countries. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book, published to commemorate the immigration station's 100th anniversary. Based on extensive new research and oral histories, Angel Island:

Curled in the bed of love
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ISBN: 1280596031 9786613625861 0820343692 9780820343693 9781280596032 0820325457 9780820325453 Year: 2003 Publisher: Athens University of Georgia Press

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All of Brady's stories are gritty and unflinching in their gaze, yet lyrical and rich in the imagery of stasis and change. There is much to learn in these tales of flawed but good people working hard to hold their lives together.


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The rise and fall of urban economies : lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780804796026 0804796025 0804789401 1503600661 9780804789400 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Business Books

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Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively farther behind its neighbour to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth - luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labour - do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? This book challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings.


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A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955-1979 : Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat Generation
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ISBN: 9780773444003 0773444009 9780773438286 0773438289 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area worked to develop a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity through a multiculturalist looking glass many years earlier.


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Media bias, perspective, and state repression
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ISBN: 9780521759700 9780511810985 9780521766005 9780511658532 0511658532 9780511656675 051165667X 0511810989 0521766001 0521759706 0511700563 9780511700569 1283329395 9781283329392 9786613329394 6613329398 0511657986 9780511657986 0511655827 9780511655821 0511657226 9780511657221 110720884X Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967-1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the Black Panthers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). Specifically, proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear; Davenport's findings prove that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the information in order to comprehend who reportedly does what to whom as well as why.


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Cosmopolitans
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ISBN: 1282359991 9786612359996 0520945026 9780520945029 9780520259133 0520259130 9781282359994 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing range of characters and events, Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the cultural creativity of the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism, and much more. Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush, the book also takes the story up to the present day, demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time. Cosmopolitans, set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area, is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.

The second gold rush
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ISBN: 0520918436 0585078874 9780520918436 9780585078878 0520081919 0520207017 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Area, argues Marilynn Johnson, the changes brought by World War II were as dramatic as those brought by the gold rush a century earlier.Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other East Bay shipyard boomtowns, Johnson chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, housing issues, and social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond. She also traces the cultural legacy of war migration and shows how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area culture.Johnson's sources are wide-ranging and include shipyard records, labor histories, police reports, and interviews. Her findings place the war's human drama at center stage and effectively recreate the texture of daily life in workplace, home, and community. Enriched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange and others, The Second Gold Rush makes an important contribution to twentieth-century urban studies as well as to California history.


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Empress San Francisco
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ISBN: 0803267827 0803267819 9780803267817 9780803267824 9780803243842 0803243847 9780803267831 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln, NB

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When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco's particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world's fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and confli


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Down by the bay
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ISBN: 0520951484 9780520951488 9780520273207 0520273206 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.

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