THE SAN FRANCISCO POLITICAL CULTURE PROJECT

This page highlights work that explores the nexus of social change, cultural diversity, and politics in San Francisco.  Please contact Bill Issel for further information about this project:  bi@sfsu.edu.

San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhoods experienced dramatic population growth and significant increases in cultural and ethnic diversity during the 1940s and 1950s, as illustrated in this 1949 class picture of Mrs. Jacobsen's Fifth Grade at Fremont School, on McAllister Street between Baker and Broderick Streets.  Bill Issel is fourth from the left in the last row.  Photo from author's collection.

William Issel, andriano's ordeal:  the story of A CATHOLIC ATTORNEY, A DIVIDED CITY, AND A NATION AT WAR

William Issel, "A DIFFERENT ERA": JULIA GORMAN PORTER'S SAN FRANCISCO LIBERALISM" 

William Issel, "HUMANITY IS ONE GREAT FAMILY": JEWS AND CATHOLICS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, 1940 -- 1960 

William Issel, "THE CATHOLIC INTERNATIONALE":  MAYOR JOSEPH L. ALIOTO'S URBAN LIBERALISM AND SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLICISM

William Issel, "FAITH-BASED ACTIVISM IN AMERICAN CITIES: THE CASE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ACTION CADRE" (scheduled for publication in the summer 2008 issue of Journal of Church and State). Contact Bill Issel for further information.

William Issel and Mary Anne Wold (Lowell High School), "CATHOLICS AND THE RACIAL JUSTICE CAMPAIGNS IN SAN FRANCISCO FROM PEARL HARBOR TO PROPOSITION 14" (scheduled for publication in American Catholic Studies, Fall 2008)  Contact Bill Issel for further information.

Rich DeLeon, "ONLY IN SAN FRANCISCO":  SAN FRANCISCO'S POLITICAL CULTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Newsletter (November/December 2002)
 http://www.spur.org/documents/pdf/021101_article_01.pdf

John Rosen (University of Illinois, Chicago), JOSEPH L. ALIOTO'S 1967 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN:  DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALISM IN TRANSITION

Carolyn McNulty (University High School), FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, COMMUNISTS: SAN FRANCISCO POLICE RESPOND TO LABOR STRIKES, 1934 -- 1940

Brenda D. Frink (Stanford University), "GOD GIVE US MEN": MANLINESS, THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, AND CATHOLICISM IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1893-1896   (This paper originally appeared in Ex Post Facto: Journal of the History Students at San Francisco State University, 2002).