Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles''s Little Manila - Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s

Informationen zum Autor Linda Espana-Maram Klappentext In this new work! Linda Espana-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila! from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos' participation in leisure activities! including the thrills of Chinatown's gambling dens! boxing matches! and the sensual pleasures of dancing with white women in taxi dance halls sent legislators! reformers! and police forces scurrying to contain public displays of Filipino virility. But as Espana-Maram argues! Filipino workers! by flaunting "improper" behavior! established niches of autonomy where they could defy racist attitudes and shape an immigrant identity based on youth! ethnicity! and notions of heterosexual masculinity within the confines of a working class.España-Maram takes this history one step further by examining the relationships among Filipinos and other Angelenos of color! including the Chinese! Mexican Americans! and African Americans. Drawing on oral histories and previously untapped archival records! España-Maram provides an innovative and engaging perspective on Filipino immigrant experiences. Zusammenfassung Analyzes the experiences of Filipino men in Los Angeles's Little Manila! from the 1920s to the end of World War II. This book discusses Filipino boxers' challenge to white America's assumptions about race; the meanings behind zoot suit fashions; and taxi dance halls! where Filipino men crossed racial boundaries by dancing with Anglo women. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Filipino Immigration to California and the Contours of Filipino Immigrant Studies 1. Making a Living: The Meanings of Work and the Struggles for Solidarity2. Of Dice and Men: Inter-Asian Relations and the Ethnic Vice Industry in Chinatown3. From the "Living Doll" to the "Bolo Puncher": Prizefighting! Masculinity! and the Sporting Life4. "White Trash" and "Brown Hordes": Taxi Dance Halls and the Policing of Working-Class Bodies5. The War Years: Identity Politics at the Crossroads of Spectacle! Excess! and Combat6. Reformulating Communities: Filipino Los Angeles Since World War IINotesBibliographyIndex ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Linda Espa?a-Maram, Linda Espaa-Maram, Linda Espana-Maram, Linda (Associate Professor Espana-Maram, Linda España-Maram, Linda Espaqa-Maram
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.04.2006
• EAN: 9780231115926
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11592-6
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives; Popular Cultures, Everyday Liv; Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Physical anthropology