Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends

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