A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (Volume 3) (A People's Guide Series)

**An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.** __A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area__ looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies? With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region. Cover A PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 THE EAST BAY 1.1 1500 Block of Adeline Street 1.2 924 Gilman 1.3 Albany Bulb 1.4 Berkeley High School 1.5 Black Cultural Zone 1.6 “Black Panther Park” (Dover Park) 1.7 Black.Seed Demonstration, one expression of #BlackLives Matter 1.8 Emeryville Shellmound Memorial 1.9 “Fossil Fuel” Corridor 1.10 Frances Albrier Community Center 1.11 Intertribal Friendship House 1.12 Jingletown 1.13 Kaiser Convention Center 1.14 Lake Merritt 1.15 Latham Square 1.16 Mandela Grocery Cooperative 1.17 Marcus Books 1.18 Middle Harbor Shoreline Park 1.19 Ogawa / Grant Plaza 1.20 Pacific Center, Front Steps 1.21 Parchester Village 1.22 Peralta Hacienda Historical Park 1.23 Piedmont-Oakland Border 1.24 Rosie the Riveter Monument and National Park 1.25 South Berkeley Social Justice Corridor 1.26 Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 2 THE SOUTH BAY AND PENINSULA 2.1 Boyer Home 2.2 Chùa Ðúc Viên 2.3 Daly City Teen Center 2.4 Drew Center Pharmacy 2.5 Eastridge Shopping Center 2.6 Facebook HQ 2.7 Fairchild Semiconductor 2.8 Gold Street Bridge 2.9 Heinlenville (San-Doy-Say Tong Yun Fow) 2.10 Hellyer Park 2.11 Keyhole 2.12 Lawrence Tract 2.13 May Day 2006 March 2.14 McDonnell Hall 2.15 Mission San Jose 2.16 Nairobi School System 2.17 New Almaden Mine Area 2.18 NUMMI Auto Plant 2.19 San Jose Labor Council 2.20 San Mateo Fairgrounds 2.21 Silicon Valley De-Bug 2.22 Saint James Park 2.23 “Victory Salute” Statue 3 SAN FRANCISCO 3.1 829 Fell Street 3.2 Alex Nieto Park 3.3 “An Injury to One . . .” Sculpture 3.4 Bank of America Building 3.5 Buchanan Mall 3.6 Buddhist-Oriented Hospice Projects 3.7 Castro Commons Parklet 3.8 Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University 3.9 Civic Center and United Nations Plazas 3.10 Critical Mass 3.11 Ghadar Memorial 3.12 Hotel Whitcomb 3.13 Hunter’s Point Shipyard 3.14 International Hotel 3.15 Japan Center, Nihonmachi 3.16 KPOO Radio, 89.5 FM 3.17 Lexington Club 3.18 Media Moguls Corner 3.19 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 3.20 Mission Dolores Cemetery 3.21 Monkey Block 3.22 Other Avenues Food Store Cooperative 3.23 Panhandle of Golden Gate Park 3.24 “Peoples Temple” Post Office 3.25 Redstone Labor Temple 3.26 Room 641A 3.27 SOMA Pilipinas Streets 3.28 South Park 3.29 The Farm 3.30 Trans March 3.31 “Twitter Tax Break” Zone 3.32 Westbrook Court and Hunter’s Point Hill Street Names 3.33 Women’s Building 4 THE NORTH BAY AND ISLANDS 4.1 Alcatraz Island 4.2 Angel Island Immigration Station 4.3 China Camp 4.4 Cuttings Wharf Housing 4.5 Farallon Islands 4.6 Golden Gate Village 4.7 Greystone Cellars 4.8 Jewish Community Center 4.9 Lucas Valley Eichler Development 4.10 Mission San Rafael Archangel 4.11 Pierce Point Ranch 4.12 Port Chicago Sailors’ Strike 4.13 Prince Hall Masons Firma Lodge No. 27 4.14 San Quentin Prison 4.15 Sausalito BART Stop 4.16 Sonoma Plaza 4.17 Tomales Bay Trailhead 4.18 US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model 5 THEMATIC TOURS The Intertribal Bay Capital and Its Discontents Ecological Imagination Youth in Revolt Militarized States Acknowledgments Appendix A. Timeline: A Brief and Incomplete Outline of Bay Area History Appendix B. Resources Credits Index

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.

A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people.

The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies?

With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.

"This book seeks to simultaneously document and engage. We aim to make disappearing and long-gone landscapes more visible in social memory, and to combat the erasure of visual clues to the past. We offer this geography in the form of a guide book, which is a practical approach through which to connect to readers as more than consumers of words on a page. We hope you will travel these streets, seeking clues to the past that help explain the present; these are real places where people have sought to make the world as they would want it. To that end, this guide is about understanding how places come into being, both in the Bay Area and beyond. The first four chapters each address a geographic region, first the East Bay, then South Bay & Peninsula, followed by San Francisco, then North Bay & Islands. These chapters are organized geographically and alphabetically; most essays are titled by the place in which events occurred, rather than with descriptive titles that suggest what took place there. Also, watch for the 'nearby' and 'related' sites after many entries. Chapter Five offers suggestions for creating thematic tours out of the material in the first four chapters. Finally, two appendices offer further resources for wandering and thinking critically about geography, history, politics and culture in the Bay Area, as well as a timeline of key historical moments that frame the text"-- Provided by publisher