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Author Wild, Mark, 1970- author.

Title Street meeting : multiethnic neighborhoods in early twentieth-century Los Angeles / H. Mark Wild.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Subject Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
California -- Los Angeles.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Wild, Mark, 1970- Street meeting. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520240839 (DLC) 2004013432 (OCoLC)55657347
ISBN 9780520941762 (electronic book)
0520941764 (electronic book)
9780520240834 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520240839 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1597349232
9781597349239
0520240839 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1282360612
9781282360617