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Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Linda España-Maram
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-25 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In this new work, Linda España-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s
Dance Floor Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Sherrie Tucker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-23 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted
Transpacific Convergences
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Denise Khor
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-26 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a t
Becoming Mexipino
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-09 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, Califor
A New History of Asian America
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on curr
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