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Asian Americans In Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, And Complexity, Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, Shauna Lo
Asian Americans In Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, And Complexity, Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, Shauna Lo
Institute for Asian American Studies Publications
This report provides an overview of Asian Americans in the Metro Boston area using 2000 U.S. Census data.
Ua1b2/1 The Jonesville Controversy, Ali Wright
Ua1b2/1 The Jonesville Controversy, Ali Wright
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Overview of the history of the African-American community, Jonesville and its demise through urban renewal in the 1960s.
The Rise Of The Golden City: Los Angeles In The Twentieth Century, Leslie Wilson
The Rise Of The Golden City: Los Angeles In The Twentieth Century, Leslie Wilson
Department of History Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
At the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles was poised to become the premier city on the West Coast.Within thirty years, the boosters, businessmen, and politicians made it a reality. These people believed that the twentieth century belonged to the city of Los Angeles, and they propelled the city into the forefront. They did so by constructing a massive aqueduct system; annexing lands to the east, west, and south of its original borders; developing a harbor; building a massive infrastructure including roads and rail lines; instituting the nation’s first zoning laws; and fostering financial investment. By 1930, the city …
Review Of Landscapes Of Leisure: Building An Urban History Of Tourism, J. Mark Souther
Review Of Landscapes Of Leisure: Building An Urban History Of Tourism, J. Mark Souther
History Faculty Publications
Review of MANSEL BLACKFORD, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001; CATHERINE COCKS, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, and HARVEY K. NEWMAN, Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz
Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz
Publications and Research
Children are a spur, a commitment, a way of imaging the future—but all too often these sorts of phrases just rattle around a vacuum, their utterance the beginning and end of the commitment. We emphasize “the best interests of the child,”but this gloss provides a moral imperative to all manner of uncompleted projects and unfulfilled policies. Likewise, the use of children’s images or presence in public forums of all types gives a patina of honorableness to practices and plans that never actually make good on the promissory note of childhood. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit is a notable example. Such …