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

Linda Espana-Maram

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June, 2006
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Filipino Immigration to California and the Contours of Filipino Immigrant Studies

1. Making a Living: The Meanings of Work and the Struggles for Solidarity

2. Of Dice and Men: Inter-Asian Relations and the Ethnic Vice Industry in Chinatown

3. From the "Living Doll" to the "Bolo Puncher": Prizefighting, Masculinity, and the Sporting Life

4. "White Trash" and "Brown Hordes": Taxi Dance Halls and the Policing of Working-Class Bodies

5. The War Years: Identity Politics at the Crossroads of Spectacle, Excess, and Combat

6. Reformulating Communities: Filipino Los Angeles Since World War II

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American Studies
• Race and Ethnicity

Series

• Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives

About the Author

Linda Espana-Maram is associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

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