| Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections During the Civil Rights Era Contributor(s): Palmer, Phyllis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826515967 ISBN-13: 9780826515964 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $98.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Using interviews with leaders and participants, as well as historical archives, the author documents three interracial sites where white Americans put themselves into unprecedented relationships with African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. In teen summer camps in the New York City and Los Angeles areas, students from largely segregated schools worked and played together; in Washington, DC, families fought blockbusting and white flight to build an integrated neighborhood; and in San Antonio, white community activists joined in coalition with Mexican American groups to advocate for power in a city government monopolized by Anglos. Women often took the lead in organizations that were upsetting patterns of men's protective authority at the same time as white people's racial dominance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2007051877 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 318 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Locality - San Angelo, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
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Contributor Bio(s): Palmer, Phyllis: - Phyllis Palmer, Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies at George Washington University, is the author of Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1940. |