| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Mark Wild. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii, 298 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-24083-9.)

Whether a formal Los Angeles school of scholarship develops along the lines of the Chicago School of Sociology, the recent wave of studies detailing the evolution of America's second-largest city has been impressive. We can now add the name of Mark Wild to a list of contributors that includes William Deverell, Matt Garcia, Greg Hise, and George Sanchez. Wild focuses on the daily interaction of racially mixed, working-class, central-city Angelenos during the opening four decades of the last century. While his final product may not be quite as conclusive as he wished, it does provide useful explanations for "the meanings and boundaries of racial and ethnic communities" (p. 5). And the author's keen eye for gender patterns markedly enhances his presentation.

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