Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila

Linda Espana-Maram is associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

Espana-Maram's volume effectively conveys the multidimensional quality of these men's lives. -- Barbara M. Posadas Journal of American History [A] groundbreaking work. -- Philip Samponaro Journal of Popular Culture This book gives us a look into the lost world of Filipino American urban cultural creativity... an absorbing and exciting book. -- Dawn B. Mabalon H-Net [An] impressive, rewarding book. -- Whitney Strub Southern California Quarterly

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Filipino Immigration to California and the Contours of Filipino Immigrant Studies 1. Making a Living: The Meanings of Work and the Struggles for Solidarity 2. Of Dice and Men: Inter-Asian Relations and the Ethnic Vice Industry in Chinatown 3. From the "Living Doll" to the "Bolo Puncher": Prizefighting, Masculinity, and the Sporting Life 4. "White Trash" and "Brown Hordes": Taxi Dance Halls and the Policing of Working-Class Bodies 5. The War Years: Identity Politics at the Crossroads of Spectacle, Excess, and Combat 6. Reformulating Communities: Filipino Los Angeles Since World War II Notes Bibliography Index