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  • Beyond Alliances

    The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California

    Edited by George J. Sanchez, Bruce Zuckerman ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    This volume focuses on the special role that Jews played in reshaping the racial landscape of southern California in the twentieth century. Rather than considering this issue in terms of broad analyses of organizations or communities, each contribution instead approaches it by examining the activity of a single Jewish individual, and how he or she navigated the social terrain of a changing ... Read more

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  • American Politics and the Jewish Community

    Edited by Dan Schnur, Bruce Zuckerman ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America's Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first century, when America saw the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party and the ... Read more

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  • Jewish Cultural Aspirations

    Edited by Ruth Weisberg, Bruce Zuckerman ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class—particularly the more affluent families—began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater, the visual arts, music, and art publication were far ... Read more

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    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

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  • Becoming Mexican American

    Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

    by George J. Sanchez ...
    Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sánchez explores the process by ... Read more

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  • Not Like Us

    How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

    by Richard Pells ...
    Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting. ... Read more

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  • From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

    The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front

    by Elizabeth R. Escobedo ...
    During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to ... Read more

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  • The Fight for the Four Freedoms

    What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great

    by Harvey J. Kaye ...
    The fascinating story of Franklin Roosevelt, the Greatest Generation, and the freedoms they won, is a “stirring, heady dose of American history by a…progressive thinker” (Kirkus Reviews).On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Generation gave voice to its founding principles, the Four Freedoms: Freedom from want and from fear. Freedom of speech and religion. In the name of the Four Freedoms they fought ... Read more

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  • Golden Dreams

    California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, ... Read more

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  • Zoot Suit

    The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

    by Kathy Peiss ...
    ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.—Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the imagination. Created by poor African American men and obscure tailors, the "drape shape" was embraced by Mexican ... Read more

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  • The Other Eighties

    A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan

    by Bradford Martin ...
    In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and '70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look ... Read more

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