Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends
Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Alien Neighbors
Chapter 1
Chinatown, San Francisco: America’s First Segregated Neighborhood
Chapter 2
Los Angeles: America’s “White Spot”
Chapter 3
The New Deal’s Third Track: Asian American Citizenship and Public Housing in Depression-Era Los Angeles
Chapter 4
“Housing Seems to Be the Problem”: Asian Americans and New Deal Housing Programs in San Francisco
Chapter 5
The Subdivision and the War: From Jefferson Park to Internment
Part II. Foreign Friends
Chapter 6
“Glorified and Mounted on a Pedestal”: San Francisco Chinatown at War
Chapter 7
Equally Unequal: Asian Americans and the Fight for Housing Rights in Postwar California
Chapter 8
“The Orientals Whose Friendship Is So Important”: Asian Americans and the Values of Property in Cold War California
Epilogue
Notes
Index“A nuanced exploration of multiracial race relations and the complexities attending Asian Americans’ shifting social status in California’s cities, this book is an important contribution to urban and Asian American history. Charlotte Brooks’s discussions about the exclusion of Asian Americans from New Deal programs and the undoing of racial covenants in the cold war era are original, well researched, and subtly argued. She compellingly illuminates the limits of postwar racial liberalism.”
Organization of American Historians: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Honorable Mention
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies
History: American History | Urban History
Political Science: Urban Politics
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