348:, Randy Shaw offers an incisive history of one of the nation’s most underappreciated neighborhoods. From its wild swings through vice and repression, surprising presence at the heart of the domestic Cold War, unique role as the locale where today’s transgender movement began out of a strange mix of federal antipoverty programs and faith-based political organizing, and as the landing pad for refugees from U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, San Francisco’s Tenderloin is an historic neighborhood whose stories unfold at an astonishing pace. Shaw’s thoroughly documented and profusely illustrated work will be a basic resource for scholars and urban investigators for years to come." —Chris Carlsson, co-director Shaping San Francisco, editor of Reclaiming San Francisco and Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78
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A completely revised and updated edition of the original book, it brings the principles of activism into the Obama era. The book describes the tactics and strategies of immigrant rights, marriage equality, and other movements that grew in strength in the 21st century. This handbook is a book with
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Shaw then went on to work with tenants on new police rules preventing illegal lockouts of tenants in lieu of legal evictions. In 1984, a campaign against
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