Beyond Alliances

George J. Sanchez is a professor of American studies and ethnicity as well as history at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005), and Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (University of Michigan Press 2009). Sanchez is currently working on a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California, in the twentieth century. He received his BA in history and sociology from Harvard University in 1981 and his PhD in history in 1989 from Stanford University.

FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION, by George J. Sanchez, Guest Editor Unexpected Allies: David C. Marcus and His Impact on the Advancement of Civil Rights in the Mexican-American Legal Landscape of Southern California, by Genevieve Carpio Multicultural Music, Jews, and American Culture: The Life and Times of William Phillips, Anthony Macias Rosalind Wiener Wyman and the Transformation of Jewish Liberalism in Cold War Los Angeles, by Barbara K. Soliz Fighting Many Battles: Max Mont, Labor, and Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles, 1950-1970, by Max Felker-Kantor ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE

Jewish Libraries Reviews Newsletter, September/October 2012 Volume II, No. 3 This volume contains four well written and researched articles about Jewish activists and visionaries who took part in the shaping of the political and cultural matrix of Southern California between 1930-1970. Profiled are: David C. Marcus, an attorney who led legal battles advancing the civil rights of Mexican-Americans; Max Mont, a labor and civil rights activist; Rosalind Weiner Wyman, who served on the Los Angeles City Council in the 1940-1950s and helped redefine Jewish liberalism; and William Phillips, a musician who opened a music store in Boyle Heights that became a neighborhood resources for musicians of all ethnicities, encouraged and mentored by him. The Casden Institute, established in 1998 at the University of Southern California to study contemporary Jewish life in America, emphasizes the role Jews played in shaping the politics and culture in the western United States. This volume is highly recommended for academic libraries that collect in the areas of American Jewishhistory and culture, Labor Relations and Civil Rights history in America. - "Dr. Yaffa Weisman, Director, The Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College-JIR, Los Angeles"