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Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Book by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: African American Women--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Social Conditions, African Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Migrations--History--20th Century, Rural-Urban Migration--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th Century, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social Conditions
...courage: African American migrant women and the East Bay community...American women-- California--San Francisco Bay Area--Social conditions. 2. Afro-Americans...migration--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History...Calif. --Social conditions. I. Title...across the bay from San Francisco. In Richmond...example, the African American population...half were women. 2 This...
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San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature
Book by David Fine, Paul Skenazy; University of New Mexico Press, 1995
Subjects: American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--California--San Francisco--History And Criticism, English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, San Francisco (Calif.)--In Literature
...arduous sea voyages like the Chinese . San Franciscos location created its destiny. Unlike the gradualism...characterize the history of most other communities, San Francisco is a city founded suddenly, destroyed...War I, the construction of the Golden Gate and Bay bridges, the Beat and Hippie eras. No other American city has seen so much of its face altered, or...five times the population and ten times the land area. San Francisco differed from Los Angeles too...bay, meanwhile, there were the working-class and African American communities of Oakland, and later the...the fern restaurants and gentrification, the California cuisine and organic foods, the New Age music and...otherwise reinventing the shifting physical and social life of the community. 2. THE STORIES...local colorist" tag condescendingly assigned to women like Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett...the exotic--the small town world of the past conditions from which the urban writer was usually exempt...
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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam
Book by Carolyn Moxley Rouse; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: African American Women--Religion, Muslim Women--Social Conditions, Muslim Women--United States--Social Conditions, Women In Islam
...Muslim women United States Social conditions. 4. African American women Religion. I. Title. BP173.4...consciousness in everyday acts and social interactions. Primary acts of...thank the University of Southern Californias Department of Anthropology and...economy of South Central, an area with numerous blackowned clothing...Christianitys role in neutering African Americans in an effort to make them passive...for Girls by Gail Madyun, an African American convert to Islam. The...limited by these labels. In your history books and through what we have...
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L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
Book by Josh Sides; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Economic Conditions--20th Century, African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social Conditions--20th Century, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic Conditions--20th Century, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race Relations, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social Conditions--20th Century
...potential for racial equality in Americas big cities, African Americans launched an exodus from the South that would continue...and Detroit in the North, to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles in the West, Americas...became increasingly black, a trend with far-reaching social, political, and economic implications. 4 Between...demand opened the door of industrial employment to women and African Americans, who had long been denied...thousands of new jobs in Los Angeles and Southern California in general, allowing both the city and the region...here like other people, to share these splendid conditions found in California, buying houses and contributing...blacks were not rigidly confined to one geographic area, as they were in other cities. As the black community...
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African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950
Book by R. Douglas Hurt; University of Missouri Press, 2003
Subjects: African American Farmers--Southern States--History--20th Century, African Americans--Southern States--History--20th Century, African Americans--Southern States--Social Conditions--20th Century, Agriculture--Social Aspects--Southern States--History--20th Century, Sharecropping--Southern States--History--20th Century, Southern States--History--1865-1951, Southern States--Race Relations, Southern States--Rural Conditions
...Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...her parents share food with other African Americans in their Marengo County home. Her...autobiographers from the early twentieth century, Washington, Du Bois, Wright, and...1996); Carol Stack, Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South; Nicholas...the Least and the Most The African American Rural Church LOIS E...
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Working on the Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants in White Women's Households in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1920-1940
Journal article by Margaret D. Jacobs; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 28, 2007
Subjects: Domestics--Analysis, Native American women--Social aspects, Pomos--Social aspects, San Francisco Bay Area--Social aspects
...worked as domestic servants in the Bay Area. Many did not use the YWCAs placement...the Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 64. 7. For more on...Porno Women in the 1930s," California History 71 (Fall 1992): 453, n.1. 9. Clifford...Murder, Rape, and Slavery of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush...Ukiah Valley in California to the San Francisco Bay Region," (MA thesis, Columbia University...also Valerie Mathes, "Nineteenth-Century Women and Reform: The Womens National...Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California...Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (Chapel Hill: University...23. For domestic service in the San Francisco Bay Area, see Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Issei...Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989). For...Subject Records, 1929-1932, RG 75, BIA California, NARA, San Bruno. 25. Palmer estimates...Subjugation of Women in Seventeenth-Century New France (New York: Routledge...
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Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco
Journal article by Amy Sueyoshi; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 26, 2005
Subjects: Immigrants--Clothing, Immigrants--Research, Japanese Americans--Clothing, Japanese Americans--Research, San Francisco, California--Emigration and immigration, San Francisco, California--History, San Francisco, California--Research, Women's studies
...cases, grooms typically wore tuxedos, but some women wore the more traditional black wedding kimonos...in the national trends of portraiture for young American society women. Beauty shots akin to debutante...enveloped her left ring finger. (49) For Japanese San Franciscans, their Western clothing probably reflected...thought of themselves as allies, even in anti-Asian California, where both groups became targets of discrimination...rather than arising "naturally" from living in San Francisco in hopes of acquiring their American dream. (55...outlined the lives of rich and dignified women of the Bay Area on her "Society Chat" page. In addition to her...physical bodies limited or to enact desires that social proscriptions prohibited. (87) Theatrical gender...men from women but also Chinese, Japanese, and African Americans from whites. (101) Though racial categories...herself on Japanese immigrants and their living conditions, she described picture brides as looking "queer...
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Changing Policy in San Francisco: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
Journal article by Laurie Schaffner, Shelley Shick, Nancy Stein; Social Justice, Vol. 24, 1997
Subjects: Juvenile detention homes--Social policy, Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders--Management, Women criminals--Psychology and mental health
...enforcing. In their interviews, both the Director of San Francisco Juvenile Hall and the Clinical Nurse Specialist...the Youth Guidance Center (YGC), noted that the social demographics of the girls in the system, and their...in the juvenile justice system nationally, in California, and in the City and County of San Francisco...babies are born into poverty. While 22% of all American children are poor, 44% of African American children are poor (Childrens Defense...moreover, many of the workers in these positions are women. To speak with the girls, we obtained a court...babies born to teenage girls in the San Francisco Bay Area are fathered by adult men, indicating that adult...through their crises, and to reduce the inhumane conditions that result from overcrowding at juvenile hall...
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"A Superior Colored Man ... and a Scotch Woman": Interracial Marriages in New York City, 1850-1870
Journal article by Jane Dabel; International Social Science Review, Vol. 80, 2005
Subjects: African American women--Social aspects, Interracial marriage--Social aspects, New York--Social aspects
...Southern slavery would improve their economic, social, and political position. (7) New York City was a hotbed of black activism where African Americans battled the twin evils of Northern racism and...Irish men overwhelmingly worked as laborers while women took jobs as domestic servants. These positions...the nineteenth century as blacks moved from the area around Greenwich Village northward. In addition...floods when it rained. In spite of these physical conditions, landlords built numerous tenements in the area...Old Brewery opened up to an alley known as Cow Bay, the site of numerous racial conflicts. (31) In...p., 1850; reprint, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990), 56-57. (30) Ladies of the Mission...8. (51) "Riots in New York," Pacific Appeal (San Francisco), September 19, 1863, 1. (52) "Rioting in the...
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The African American "Great Migration" and Beyond
Journal article by Stewart E. Tolnay; Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 29, 2003
Subjects: African Americans--Research, Emigration and immigration--Research
...edu/. (3) The 1940 and 1950 PUMS files include information about farm status and metropolitan area of residence five years and one year before the census, respectively. However, the information...Migrants, Northern Exiles. Urbana: Univ. Ill. Press Bigham DE. 1987. We Ask Only a Fair Trial: A History of the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press Blalock HM. 1967...Urbana: Univ. Ill. Press Bose C. 2001. Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press Boyd RL. 1998. The storefront church ministry in African American communities of the urban North during the Great Migration: the making of an ethnic niche...retail enterprise in northern cities, 1900. Sociol. Perspect. 44:89-110 Broussard AS. 1993. Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954. Lawrence: Univ. Press Kans. Bunch-Lyons...Reg. Sci. 521-44 Gregory JN. 1989. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford Univ. Press Gregory JN. 1995. The southern diaspora and the urban dispossessed...a Social Demographic History. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press Jones J. 1992. The Dispossessed: Americans Underclass from the Civil War to the Present. New York: Basic Books Kiser CV. 1932. Sea Island...Knopf Lemke-Santangelo G. 1996. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: Univ. NC Press Li WL, Randolf SL. 1982. Return migration and status attainment...
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To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910--1963
Magazine article by Charles Wollenberg; California History, Vol. 79, Winter 2000
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, To Place Our Deeds: The African American community in Richmond, California, 1910--1963 (Book)
...they were black, female, and lived in Richmond, California. A gritty industrial city, Richmonds image suffered...comparison with its higher-status neighbors, including San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. Even among Bay Area African Americans, Richmond was viewed as a place with "no social or cultural amenities." Richmonds low prestige...or the church pulpit. Perhaps for this reason, women played important leadership roles. Margaret Starks...had to adjust to unfamiliar urban and industrial conditions in the midst of major shortages of housing, schools...
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Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California
Magazine article by Peter A. Coates; California History, Vol. 83, Spring 2005
Subjects: California--Economic aspects, California--Portrayals, California--Social aspects, Distribution (Economics)--Analysis, Distribution (Economics)--History, Distribution of wealth--Analysis, Distribution of wealth--History, Sociopolitical literature--Analysis, Wealth--Analysis, Wealth--History
...Geological Guidebook of the San Francisco Bay Counties, Bulletin 154 (Division of Mines, San Francisco, 1951), New Almaden Mines Papers, Collection...Almaden Mine: The First Chemical Industry in California," Journal of Chemical Education, 20/5 (May...11) Virginia Scott Jenkins, The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession (Washington, DC...expanses based on humankinds evolution on the African grasslands. On the socio-cultural construction...one of the finest examples of an eighteenth-century English landscape park, now in the custody...James Woods, Recollections of Pioneer Work in California (San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn, 1878), 80. (17) Alan Hynding...American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989...Construction of Wilderness," Environmental History, 6/4 (October 2001), 546-47. (19) See Peter...
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An Uncertain Influence: The Role of the Federal Government in California, 1846-1880
Magazine article by Robert J. Chandler; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: California--History, Federalism--History
...The Release of the Chapman Pirates: A California Sidelight on Lincolns Amnesty Policy," Civil War History 23 (June 1977): 129-43, Chandler, "Success to Civil War Tragedy: The Greathouse Brothers of Greathouse Slicers Express," Western Express 46 (March 1996): 4-13, and Chandler, "Californias 1863 Loyalty Oath: Another Look," Arizona and the West 21 (Autumn 1979): 215-34. (54.) Robert J. Chandler, "Vigilante Rebirth: The Civil War Union League," The Argonaut: Journal of the San Francisco Historical Society 3 (Winter 1992) 10-18 (55.) Robert J. Chandler, "Friends in Time of Need: Republicans...Yale University Press, 1977, reprinted 1997); and Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998). (56.) Robert J. Chandler, "Fort Alcatraz...Charles J. McClain, In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); Senator Aaron A. Sargent, Report of the Joint...
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Prison Activists Come of Age : IN CALIFORNIA, RESISTANCE TO PRISON EXPANSION BUILDS ON THE PAST
Magazine article by Bell Gale Chevigny; The Nation, Vol. 271, July 24, 2000
Subjects: California, Correctional institutions, Nunn, Dorsey--Behavior, Prison reformers--Behavior, Prisoners--United States
...of prison activist groups and coalitions. The Bay Area saw the spectacular rise in the sixties of a prisoners...from the old. Prison activists, predominantly women, are reaching out to embrace new groups-farmers...Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) in San Francisco. "I was committed to providing direct service...womens prisons-including the worlds two biggest, in California-are built without regard to womens gynecological...the states most imaginative organizers of the African-American community. Drugs led to young Nunns conviction...expecting to go to the gas chamber. But prison conditions shocked him into wanting to survive to change...the uniquely holistic RSVP. Offering therapy and social services to violence victims and their families...
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Taming the Elephant: An Introduction to California's Statehood and Constitutional Era
Magazine article by John F. Burns; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: American westward expansion, California--History, Gold--Discovery and exploration, Precious metal products
...making of California as we know it? Although the social, cultural, and economic ramifications of Californias first thirty years as a state have been treated...military governor, presided by treaty over an area of the United States that was no longer simply...rooted in common law derived from English and American precedent. And this was occurring in an incredibly...launched a rush of mostly young men (and a few women) from all regions of the globe, but especially...mostly limited to navigable waterways. Living conditions could be harsh. When Frank Marryat arrived in...often caught bewildered. Gold seekers who left San Francisco for a mere three months found upon their return...the era, there were no women, Native Americans, African Americans, or anyone of Asian descent. Only eight...ning, and the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay hint at contrasting approaches to governmental...
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 30, 1999
...that helps developing countries improve living conditions. 61* New York Yankee outfielder Roger Maris...STUFF Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth, circling it three times in a Mercury...to be known, spurs a number of young people to social activism. HERES JOHNNY! NBC-TVs "The Tonight...Feminine Mystique," arguing that society pressures women to be housewives and not to seek careers. The...authorities close Alcatraz, the federal prison on San Francisco Bay that housed some of the centurys most notorious...Americans and Canadians in an 80,000-square-mile area. 1966 GOP GLEE In midterm elections, the...The new GOP governors include Ronald Reagan in California and Spiro T. Agnew in Maryland. LIKE FATHER...president is incapacitated. HAVE A HEART South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first...


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California
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...to industry as the core of the states economy, California leads the nation in the production of fruits and...methods. Irrigation is critical, especially in the San Joaquin Valley and Imperial Valley. The gathering...draw millions of visitors each year, as do San Francisco with its numerous attractions and several entertainment-dominated Los Angeles area communities. California also abounds in natural...Valley , irrigation is controlled by the All-American Canal , which draws from the Colorado River. In...became the first state to simultaneously elect two women to the U.S. Senate Democrats Barbara Boxer and...Rodriguez Cabrillo , who explored San Diego Bay and the area farther north along the coast. In...population growth continued after the war. Many African Americans who came during World War II to work...many growers to obtain better pay and working conditions. Unrest also occurred in the states universities...did cuts in federal defense spending; meanwhile, social tensions also increased. In Apr., 1992, four white...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...worlds third largest country in population and in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district...central Pacific Ocean c.2,100 mi (3,400 km) SW of San Francisco. Washington, D.C. , is the capital of the United...Ocean, Guam (ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War), the Northern Mariana Islands (a commonwealth...states of the Far West ( Washington , Oregon , California , and Nevada ). Alaska is the largest state...fine natural harbors, such as those of New York Bay and Chesapeake Bay , but south of the great...many other origins (who may be any race). The African-American population numbered 34,658,190, or 12...Africans were transported in chains under abysmal conditions to work as slaves, chiefly on the plantations...industrial development. However, economic and social growth continued, and by the mid-18th cent. there...included most able-bodied young men and many young women. The creation of a great number of government...


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