Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Subtitle: space, place, and struggle
By: Kathryn E. Wilson
Series: Urban life, landscape, and policy; Urban life, landscape, and policy
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781439912157; 9781439912140
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social conditions; Chinese Americans; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Imagining Chinatown; title: Claiming space, creating Chinatown, 1870-1940; title: "Chinatown was the safe space": community, memory, and place, 1940-1980; title: "We want homes not highways": urban renewal and the "save Chinatown" movement; title: "Be part of progress, not its sacrificial lamb": community development strategies 1970-2000; title: "A legacy of resistance": Chinatown north and 21st century challenges; title: "We are the ones who should be telling the story": representing Chinatown; title: Epilogue: "Is, was and will be Chinatown".