Ethnoburb

by Wei, Li

• ISBN13: 9780824830656
• ISBN10: 0824830652
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs¿suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas¿are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Exploring the Ethnic Suburb
Ethnicity and Space	p. 11
Ethnoburb: An Alternative Ethnic Settlement	p. 29
The Los Angeles Chinese Ethnoburb
Changing Chinese Settlement	p. 53
Building Ethnoburbia	p. 79
From Ethnic Service Center to Global Economic Outpost	p. 100
Anatomy of an Ethnoburb	p. 118
Portraits of Ethnoburban Chinese	p. 150
Ethnoburbs of North America
Opportunities and Challenges for Ethnoburbs	p. 171
Notes	p. 185
References	p. 193
Index	p. 209
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