Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Wild, Mark

Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520256354)

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Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Wild, Mark

Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

$34.95
Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Wild, Mark

Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Mark Wild
ISBN-10: 0520256352
ISBN-13: 9780520256354
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2008
Pages: 309
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.10w x 0.72d
By Mark Wild
By Mark Wild
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Mark Wild is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles.

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