CHAPTER SEVEN. Becoming Equally Unequal: The Fight for Property and Housing Rights in Postwar California

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Alien Neighbors
7. CHAPTER ONE. Chinatown, San Francisco: The First Segregated Neighborhood in America 11
8. CHAPTER TWO. Los Angeles: America’s “White Spot” 39
9. CHAPTER THREE. The New Deal’s Third Track: Asian American Citizenship and Public Housing in Depression-Era Los Angeles 70
10. CHAPTER FOUR. “Housing Seems to Be the Problem”: Asian Americans and New Deal Housing Programs in San Francisco 86
11. CHAPTER FIVE. The Subdivision and the War: From Jefferson Park to Internment 114
12. 2. Foreign Friends
13. CHAPTER SIX. “Glorified and Mounted on a Pedestal”: San Francisco Chinatown at War 135
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. Becoming Equally Unequal: The Fight for Property and Housing Rights in Postwar California 159
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. “The Orientals Whose Friendship Is So Important”: Asian Americans and the Values of Property in Cold War California 194
16. Epilogue 237
17. Notes 241
18. Index 311