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" “America’s Newest City”: "
Cruz, Donato
Stango, Marie
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1114447
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TLpq2408038263
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| Main Entry
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Cruz, Donato
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Stango, Marie
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“America’s Newest City”:\ Cruz, DonatoStango, Marie
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California State University, Bakersfield
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2020
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2020
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M.A.
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207
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| Abstract
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“‘America’s Newest City': 1950s Bakersfield and the Making of the Modern Suburban Segregated Landscape” examines post-war Bakersfield, California, which witnessed many changes through the development of new neighborhoods, homes, and city centers, which were accompanied by changes in urban planning, politics, and race relations from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Focusing on the Mayflower Tract, a minority-dense tract, the thesis argues that segregation and racial discrimination changed over time. Segregation was an artificial construction, led by local real estate agents, public officials, and residents. These policy changes were exacerbated in the postwar era and were not unique to Bakersfield. But for Bakersfield, the turning point was the 1952 earthquake, as the post-earthquake changes shaped housing and urban development in urban infrastructure. The changes that impacted housing and urban development was the development of urban infrastructure. The thesis argues that the modernization of the Mayflower neighborhood was unequal to the modernizing process in the rest of the city due to public policy and resistance to racial equality. Within the transformations of a 20-year period, the thesis argues that de facto segregation was more of a construct and argument, rather than reality. Segregation in the West was similar to the inequalities of the urban North and similar to the South, where segregation was classified as de jure.
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Bakersfield, California
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Buying on contract
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Redlining
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Segregation
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Suburanizaiton
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Urbanization
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