num_pages: 240
description: Monterey Park, California, was dubbed by the media as the First Suburban Chinatown. This book reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen community control. It also explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.
language: English
title: The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
titlecomplete: The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (Asian American History & Cultu)
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Temple University Press