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... This chapter focuses on grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area that sell “Indian” commodities. These stores are fraught social spaces that enable customers, owners, and community members to emplace themselves along a sedimented landscape shaped by race, class, gender, and ethnicity: unlike...

... “Renaissance and Apocalypse: Notes on the Bay Area's Transsexual Arts Scene” sets the scene for the emergence of distinctively trans artists and art practices within a wider queer culture. Renaissance implies rebirth, and the text hints at pasts in which something like what we now call...

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... This chapter looks at the institution of the “showcase,” or large-scale, multicrew performances that could draw hundreds or thousands of people from across the Bay Area. Showcases were an important mediator of symbolic capital within the scene and thus drove both competitive and cooperative...

... This chapter introduces the phenomenon of the Filipino American mobile disc jockey crews in the Bay Area. It begins with a discussion of the importance of DJs to community formations before moving on to an examination of DJing as a collective activity itself. It also discusses the relevance...

... immigration and settlement patterns by middle-class Filipino families to the Bay Area, and cultural trends, such as the brief but intense discotheque boom following the success of the film Saturday Night Fever. The chapter also introduces the class dimensions that became more pronounced as the mobile scene...