Selected Bibliography

Baranski, John. Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

Bauer, Catherine. Modern Housing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

Beil, Kim. “The Myth of Black and White Modernism: Color Photographs and the Politics of Retrojective Looking.” Visual Resources 31, no. 3–4 (December 2015): 127–153.

“Channel Heights.” California Arts and Architecture, August 1944.

Crawford, Margaret. “Daily Life on the Home Front: Women, Blacks, and the Struggle for Public Housing.” In World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation, edited by Donald Albrecht, 90–143. Washington, DC: National Building Museum, 1995. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, November 11, 1994–December 31, 1995.

Cuff, Dana. The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

DeMars, Vernon. “A Life in Architecture: Indian Dancing, Migrant Housing, Telesis, Design for Urban Living, Theater, Teaching.” Interview by Suzanne Riess in 1988 and 1989. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt938nb53j&query=&brand=oac4.

Dillon, Lindsey. “Race, Waste, and Space: Brownfield Redevelopment and Environmental Justice at the Hunters Point Shipyard.” Antipode 46, no. 5 (November 2014): 1205–1221.

Eisner, Simon. “Seven Decades of Planning and Development in the Los Angeles Region: Simon Eisner.” Interview by Edward A. Holden in 1987 and 1989. Oral History Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewFile.do?contentFileId=2259912.

Hines, Thomas. “Housing, Baseball, and Creeping Socialism.” Journal of Urban History 8, no. 2 (1982): 123–143.

Hise, Greg. “Building Design as Social Art: The Public Architecture of William Wurster, 1935–1950.” In An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster, edited by Marc Treib, 138–163. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 [1995]. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 16, 1995–February 11, 1996.

Hise, Greg. “From Roadside Camps to Garden Homes: Housing and Community Planning for California’s Migrant Work Force, 1935–1941.” In Gender, Class, and Shelter, edited by Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins, 243–258. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 5. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Housing Authority of the City of Vallejo. These Are the Houses Sam Built; Vallejo, July 1942–January 1944. Vallejo: Housing Authority of the City of Vallejo, 1944.

Howard, Amy L. More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Kelley and VerPlanck Historical Resources Consulting. Bayview-Hunters Point Area B Survey, San Francisco, California: Historic Context Statement. San Francisco: Kelley and VerPlanck Historical Resources Consulting, 2010. https://bvoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BVHP_Historical-Context.pdf.

Kimble, John. “Insuring Inequality: The Role of the Federal Housing Administration in the Urban Ghettoization of African Americans.” Law & Social Inquiry 32, no. 2 (2007): 399–434.

Mechner, Jordan, dir. Chávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. Oley: Bullfrog Films, 2004. DVD.

Museum of Modern Art. “Wartime Housing: An Exhibition in 10 Scenes.” Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 9, no. 4 (May 1942): 2–22.

Oberlander, H. Peter, and Eva Newbrun. Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.

Parson, Don. Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Penner, Barbara. “The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing.” Places Journal (October 2018): https://doi.org/10.22269/181030.

Persitz, Alexandre. “‘Channel Heights,’ 1942.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 16, no. 6 (June 1946): 63–70.

Pulido, Laura. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Radford, Gail. Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Historical Studies of Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Rikala, Taina Marjatta. “Catherine Bauer and Six Riddles of Modernism.” Journal of Architecture 7, no. 2 (2002): 191–203.

Reed, Peter S. “Enlisting Modernism.” In World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation, edited by Donald Albrecht, 2–41. Washington, DC: National Building Museum, 1995. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, November 11, 1994–December 31, 1995.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Stein, Sally. “The Rhetoric of the Colorful and the Colorless: American Photography and Material Culture Between the Wars.” PhD diss., Yale University, 1991. ProQuest.

Stein, Sally. “Toward a Full-Color Turn in the Optics of Modern History.” American Art 29, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 15–21.

Villa, Raúl Homero. Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

Wilson Moore, Shirley Ann. “Traditions from Home: African Americans in Wartime Richmond, California.” In The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II, edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, 263–283. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Wright, Gwendolyn. “A Partnership: Catherine Bauer and William Wurster.” In An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster, edited by Marc Treib, 177–203. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 [1995]. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 16, 1995–February 11, 1996.