© Columbia University Press
Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s
Paper, 280 pages, 7 b&w halftones, 9 color halftones, 6 line drawings
ISBN: 978-0-231-11593-3
$26.50
/ £15.50
June, 2006
Cloth, 280 pages, 7 b&w halftones, 9 color halftones, 6 line drawings
ISBN: 978-0-231-11592-6
$75.00
/ £44.00
"Espana-Maram's volume effectively conveys the multidimensional quality of these men's
lives." — Barbara M. Posadas, Journal of American
History
"[A] groundbreaking work."
— Philip Samponaro, Journal of Popular
Culture
"This book gives us a look into
the lost world of Filipino American urban cultural creativity... an absorbing and exciting book."
— Dawn B. Mabalon, H-Net
"In this bold and brilliant book, Espana-Maram offers us a new
understanding of how history happens and why culture counts. Through lively, engaging, and
empathetic accounts of a broad range of popular culture practices, Espana-Maram shows how
seemingly trivial sites—like the dance floor, the boxing ring, and the gambling den—became
unexpected sites of struggle for justice, dignity, recognition, and resources among immigrant
male Filipino workers in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. The mutually constitutive nature of
gender, class, and racial identities have never been more convincingly demonstrated than they are
in this innovative, imaginative, and magnificently generative book." — George
Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness ,
University of California, Santa Cruz
"In this pathbreaking
work, Espana-Maram locates the tensions of Filipino American immigrant masculinity within various
spaces. She provides a stunning panoramic portrait that encompasses racial, ethnic, gender,
sexual, and class strife and conflicts. A triumph of historical and cultural analysis."
— Martin F. Manalansan IV, associate professor of anthropology and Asian American
studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign