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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010712516
Author : Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9798216108894
Presenting sociological as well as historical perspectives, this book supplies readers with a fascinating, unprecedented look at the most successful organized-crime family they've probably never heard of. From the 1920s until the early 21st century, one Sicilian mob family defied everyone from the California attorney general to J. Edgar Hoover to chart their own American Dream. Unlike their flashier rivals in New York and Chicago who met their end by the knife, the bullet, or a judge's gavel, this crime family prospered and grew alongside their adopted home of San Francisco. This book tells how they did it. Readers will learn how the Lanzas managed to retain control of their patch from the end of Prohibition through the Summer of Love and into the beginnings of the dot-com era, gaining insight into not only what the west-coast branch of the Mob did, but also why they did it. The documentation of how this mostly unknown crime syndicate formed, evolved, and eventually folded is set against the backdrop of the city of San Francisco transforming itself from a gritty port and manufacturing hub dominated by Italian- and Irish-Americans into the multicultural intellectual and services capital it is today.
Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469658841
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3458512
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112100648952
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128868424
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1 (1946)
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357516
Author : Katherine Crawford-Lackey,Megan E. Springate
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805395676
With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. The focus is deeper look at how sexually variant and gender non-conforming Americans constructed identity, created communities, and fought to have rights recognized by the government. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.
Author : Stephen R. Duncan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421426341
An account of how the subterranean nightspots in 1950s New York and San Francisco became social, cultural, and political hothouses for left-wing bohemians. The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife—from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians—have long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel Café, Stephen R. Duncan flips the frame, focusing on the New York and San Francisco bars, nightclubs, and coffeehouses from which these cultural icons emerged. Duncan shows that the sexy, smoky sites of bohemian Greenwich Village and North Beach offered not just entertainment but doorways to a new sociopolitical consciousness. This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture. Touching on literary figures from Norman Mailer and Amiri Baraka to Susan Sontag as well as performers ranging from Dave Brubeck to Maya Angelou to Lenny Bruce, The Rebel Café profiles hot spots such as the Village Vanguard, the hungry i, the Black Cat Cafe, and the White Horse Tavern. Ultimately, the book provides a deeper view of 1950s America, not simply as the black-and-white precursor to the Technicolor flamboyance of the sixties but as a rich period of artistic expression and identity formation that blended cultural production and politics. “What emerges in these pages is nothing less than a comprehensive psycho-social geography of an underground counter-culture of black and white jazz musicians, leftists, poets, artists, beatniks, gays and lesbians and other people of the demi-monde.” —All About Jazz
Author : Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469607672
Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city's story since its beginning. Charting the development of a hybrid Latino identity forged through struggle--latinidad--from the Gold Rush through the civil rights era, Tomas F. Summers Sandoval Jr. chronicles the rise of San Francisco's diverse community of Latin American migrants. This latinidad, Summers Sandoval shows, was formed and made visible on college campuses and in churches, neighborhoods, movements for change, youth groups, protests, the Spanish-language press, and business districts. Using diverse archival sources, Summers Sandoval gives readers a panoramic perspective on the transformation of a multinational, multigenerational population into a visible, cohesive, and diverse community that today is a major force for social and political activism and cultural production in California and beyond.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3458532
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : American literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119878116
Author : Ocean Howell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226290287
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image. In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity—a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates how these actors worked with and against one another to establish the very ideas of the public and the public interest, as well as to negotiate and renegotiate what the neighborhood wanted. In the process, he shows that national narratives about how cities grow and change are fundamentally insufficient; everything is always shaped by local actors and concerns.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049942899
Author : Meredith Oda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226592749
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.