Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955

Varzally, Allison

ISBN 10: 0520253450 / ISBN 13: 9780520253452

Published by University of California Press, 2008

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0520253450I5N00

Synopsis:

What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative years of the twentieth century. In a lively account, woven throughout with vivid voices and experiences drawn from interviews, ethnic newspapers, and memoirs, Allison Varzally examines everyday interactions among the Asian, Mexican, African, Native, and Jewish Americans, and others who lived side by side. What she finds is that in shared city spaces across California, these diverse groups mixed and mingled as students, lovers, worshippers, workers, and family members and, along the way, expanded and reconfigured ethnic and racial categories in new directions.

About the Author: Allison Varzally is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Making a Non-White America: Californians ...
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket