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American literature --- City and town life in literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Intellectual life.
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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:
Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) --- History. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Emigration and immigration. --- History --- San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. --- Emigration and immigration
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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.
Love stories, American. --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- American fiction --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Romance fiction, American. --- Romance-language fiction, American.
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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.
E-books --- Economic development --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) --- Economic conditions. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Economic geography --- Los Angeles [California] --- San Francisco [California]
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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.
American literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Beat literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Reed, Ishmael, --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Chin, Frank, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Intellectual life. --- In literature. --- Coleman, Emmett, --- 赵健秀, --- Hong, Maxine Jinsidun --- Hong, Maxine Ting Ting --- Jinsidun, Makexin Hong --- Tang, Tingting, --- 汤亭亭 --- 洪婷婷 --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- 赵健秀
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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.
Black Panther Party --- Press coverage --- California --- San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. --- History --- Journalism --- Objectivity --- United States --- Political aspects --- African Americans --- Politics and government --- 20th century --- Civil rights movements --- Race relations --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Black Panthers --- BPP (Black Panther Party) --- B.P.P. (Black Panther Party) --- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense --- History. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- Black people --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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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.
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Ethnic relations. --- 19th century american culture. --- 20th century american culture. --- adolph sutro. --- al gump. --- bay area jews. --- business world. --- california. --- class conflict. --- cultural creativity. --- florence prag kahn. --- gertrude stein. --- gilded age. --- gold rush. --- great depression. --- holocaust. --- jewish american experience. --- jewish americans. --- jewish people. --- jewish reformers. --- jewish women. --- judaism. --- levi strauss. --- progressive era. --- san francisco. --- social justice. --- united states of america. --- yehundi menuhin. --- zionism.
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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.
Rural-urban migration --- World War, 1939-1945 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Urbanization --- History --- Oakland (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- City of Oakland (Calif.) --- History.
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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
Women --- Japanese Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Group identity --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Chinese --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social conditions. --- Ethnic identity. --- History --- Panama-Pacific International Exposition --- Exposition universelle et internationale de San Francisco --- International Exhibition of San Francisco --- Panama-Taiheiyō Bankoku Hakurankai --- P.P.I.E. --- PPIE --- San Francisco. --- Universal Exposition --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Social life and customs. --- Moral conditions. --- Ethnic relations.
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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.
Land use --- Nature --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- Environmental conditions. --- american west. --- bayshore. --- california ecology. --- california environment. --- california history. --- cities and environment. --- climate change. --- conservation and development. --- ecological historians. --- ecology and climate change. --- environment conservation. --- environmental history. --- environmental protection. --- environmentalism. --- global warming. --- going green. --- history of san francisco. --- nature conservation. --- pacific coast. --- san francisco estuary. --- san francisco tidelands. --- urban development and environment. --- us history. --- westward expansion.
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