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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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As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to describe our surroundings, and this lack of understanding limits our ability as citizens to contribute to political decisions about the landscape of cities, especially at the edges where land meets water. Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters – and the forces, histories, and interactions that underlie what is visible. In a unique synthesis of text and drawing, Jane Wolff applies analytical and representational tools based in design and documentary work to findings from the fields of geography, environmental and cultural history, public policy, urban ecology, and landscape studies. As our cities face increasing pressure caused by climate change, we will need to reimagine them in terms that do justice to their complexity. Bay Lexicon's methods for building landscape literacy are meant for translation, adaptation, and use far beyond San Francisco Bay. Through activist scholarship that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and levels of expertise, this book examines how the landscape at the water's edge works, documents its historical evolution, brings its citizens' values to light, and frames conversations about how and why it might change.

Shorelines --- Landscapes --- San Francisco Bay (Calif.) --- Pacific Ocean --- Environmental conditions. --- Geography. --- Geography --- California. --- San Francisco Bay. --- analysis. --- coasts. --- cultural landscapes. --- environmental history. --- geography. --- guides. --- humanities. --- landscape architecture. --- literacy. --- observation. --- representation. --- shorelines. --- urban ecology. --- visualization. --- walking. --- waterfronts.

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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.