George J. Sanchez & Bruce Zuckerman 
Beyond Alliances [EPUB ebook] 
The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California

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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 southern California. In particular, this volume is one of the first to take seriously the unique racial/ethnic makeup of southern California for Jewish activism, with a particular focus on the relationship between Jews and Mexican Americans in the area around Los Angeles. The Jewish individuals who are this volume’s subjects represent a wide spectrum of backgrounds and perspectives, ranging from an elected official to an activist lawyer, and from a local businessman to a Democratic Party organizer. The volume culminates with an interview with one of the most beloved of local university rabbis, who has been operating in the ever-changing environment of higher education in Los Angeles over the past thirty years. While its overall message is one of optimism, the volume does not shy away from taking on some of the more vexed issues in the scholarship of racial/ethnic interaction. While Jewish activism in shaping local civil rights is thoroughly discussed, the specific and unequal dynamics of power within the civil rights community is also analyzed. The changing relationship of Jews to
whiteness

 in southern California during the late twentieth century, in both geographic and political terms, shapes many of these ongoing relationships. Finally, the volume provides a unique historical perspective on our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles in all its ethnic complexity, and specifically in thinking through the future of Jewish role in urban southern California.

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FOREWORD
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION, by George J. Sánchez, Guest Editor
Unexpected Allies: David C. Marcus and His Impact on the Advancement of Civil Rights in the Mexican-American Legal Landscape of Southern California, by Genevieve Carpio
Multicultural Music, Jews, and American Culture: The Life and Times of William Phillips, Anthony Macías
Rosalind Wiener Wyman and the Transformation of Jewish Liberalism in Cold War Los Angeles, by Barbara K. Soliz
Fighting Many Battles: Max Mont, Labor, and Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles, 1950–1970, by Max Felker-Kantor
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE

Giới thiệu về tác giả

George J. Sanchez is a professor of American studies and ethnicity as well as history at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He is the author of
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press 1993), co-editor of
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005), and
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (University of Michigan Press 2009). Sanchez is currently working on a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California, in the twentieth century. He received his BA in history and sociology from Harvard University in 1981 and his Ph D in history in 1989 from Stanford University.

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