Michael Dawson — Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1 970

Abstract

Left History 10.2 ing activism. If suburbanization and protest were merely two faces of African American striving for equality, as Wiese contends, should such activism be understood as located within the working class, the middle class, or both? Probably no historical work can answer all the questions it raises, and the fact that these important issues are unresolved should not detract from the calibre of Wiese's achievement. Places of Their Own makes a powerful case for giving renewed attention to the concept of space as we explore the fundamental problem of race in history. Whether we are thinking of suburban homes or suburbanites, Wiese has demonstrated that they did not all look the same.