Background
Marilynn Johnson was born on June 25, 1957, in New York, United States. She is a daughter of Thomas C. and Mary Johnson.
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Marilynn Johnson studied at Stanford University. She became a Bachelor of Arts in 1979.
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Marilynn Johnson continued her education at New York University where she became a Master of Arts in 1984.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Marilynn Johnson became a Doctor of Philosophy after graduating from Stanford University in 1990.
(More than any event in the twentieth century, World War I...)
More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Area, argues Marilynn Johnson, the changes brought by World War II were as dramatic as those brought by the gold rush a century earlier. Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other East Bay shipyard boomtowns, Johnson chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, housing issues, and social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond. She also traces the cultural legacy of war migration and shows how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area culture. Johnson's sources are wide-ranging and include shipyard records, labor histories, police reports, and interviews. Her findings place the war's human drama at center stage and effectively recreate the texture of daily life in workplace, home, and community. Enriched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange and others, The Second Gold Rush makes an important contribution to twentieth-century urban studies as well as to California history.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Gold-Rush-Oakland-World-ebook/dp/B003AU4JOK/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(Generations of Americans have developed an image of viole...)
Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American frontier between the 1880s and 1910s? How frequently did violence occur, and what forms did it take? Johnson explores these questions through the lens of the mining and range wars that plagued the region during this period. The author opens with an introductory essay that situates violence within social, political, and economic circumstances of the time, considering smaller cases of interpersonal violence and larger conflicts. Documents are then presented to illuminate two case studies of collective violence - the Johnson County range war in northern Wyoming and the 1913 - 1914 coal strike in southern Colorado resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. The closing epilogue examines the role both incidents played in shaping the collective memory and cultural history of the American West.
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-West-Johnson-Massacre-Documents-ebook/dp/B00KGBOCDE/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nat...)
Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.
https://www.amazon.com/Whats-New-about-Immigration-Transformations-ebook/dp/B00TR5JHQW/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society legi...)
Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society legislation, the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the nation's doors to large-scale immigration from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A half-century later, the impact of the "new immigration" is evident in the transformation of the country's demographics, economy, politics, and culture, particularly in urban America. In The New Bostonians, Marilynn S. Johnson examines the historical confluence of recent immigration and urban transformation in greater Boston, a region that underwent dramatic decline after World War II. Since the 1980s, the Boston area has experienced an astounding renaissance - a development, she argues, to which immigrants have contributed in numerous ways. From 1970 to 2010, the percentage of foreign-born residents of the city more than doubled, representing far more diversity than earlier waves of immigration. Like the older Irish, Italian, and other European immigrant groups whose labor once powered the region's industrial economy, these newer migrants have been crucial in re-building the population, labor force, and metropolitan landscape of the New Boston, although the fruits of the new prosperity have not been equally shared.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Bostonians-Immigrants-Transformed-Metro-ebook/dp/B07CHF2ZMW/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Marilynn Johnson was born on June 25, 1957, in New York, United States. She is a daughter of Thomas C. and Mary Johnson.
Johnson studied at Stanford University. She became a Bachelor of Arts in 1979. Then she continued her education at New York University where she became a Master of Arts in 1984 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990.
Professor Johnson's work focuses on urban social relations in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. She teaches courses on social movements, urban and working-class history, violence, and the American West. Her earlier work looked at internal migration during World War II, police brutality, and violence on the mining and cattle frontiers. Her latest book, The New Bostonians, explores the history of new immigrants in greater Boston since the 1960s. She is now launching a digital history project and website on Boston area immigration.
(Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society legi...)
2017(Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nat...)
2014(More than any event in the twentieth century, World War I...)
1994(Generations of Americans have developed an image of viole...)
2014
Johnson married Daniel Zedek (a newspaper designer) in1990. They have two children: Rosa and Jacob.