Chinatown, San Francisco: the first segregated neighborhood in America -- Los Angeles: America's "white spot" -- The New Deal's third track: Asian American citizenship and public housing in depression-era Los Angeles -- "Housing seems to be the problem":Asian Americans and New Deal housing programs in San Francisco -- The subdivision and the war: from Jefferson park to internment -- "Glorified and mounted on a pedestal": San Francisco Chinatown at war -- Becoming equally unequal: the fight for property and housing rights in postwar California -- "The orientals whose friendship is so important": Asian Americans and the values of property in Cold War California.
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