Ethnoburb
Subtitle: the new ethnic community in urban America
By: Wei Li.
Publisher: University of Hawai`i Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780824830656
Subjects: Suburbs -- North America; Ethnic neighborhoods -- North America; Cultural pluralism -- North America; Ethnic neighborhoods -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- Case studies; Chinese Americans -- California -- Monterey Park -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America, by Wei Li, is an innovative work that 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 - re 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploring ethnic suburb. Ethnicity and space; Ethnoburb: an alternative ethnic settlement; title: The Los Angeles Chinese ethnoburb. Changing Chinese settlement; Building ethnoburbia; Thriving ethnic economy; Anatomy of an ethnic suburb; Portraits of ethnoburban Chinese; title: Ethnoburbs of North America. Opportunities and challenges.