Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California 9780520947719, 0520947711

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California 9780520947719

This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the

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The Ballot and the Break

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Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens 9780520959217

Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational move

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Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities 9780292760646

In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, ur

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The rejected propositions of the Constitutional Convention

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Tanaka, the making of postwar Japan 0582382165, 0582382157

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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America 9780226474021

Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware

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Tanaka: The Making of Postwar Japan 0582382165, 9780582382169

Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanes

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The Ugliness of the Indian Male and other Propositions 9788178244433

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Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape 9780520967540

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeve

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