The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California - Couverture rigide

Fong, T

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1566391237 ISBN 13 : 9781566391238

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 1994

Synopsis

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese immigrants transformed it into a bustling international boomtown. It is now the only city in the United States with a majority Asian American population. Timothy P. Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place there, and the political reactions to the change. Fong, a former journalist, reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control," including a movement to make English the official language. Recounting the internal strife and the beginnings of recovery, Fong explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons. Author note: Timothy P. Fong teaches at the University of California, Davis, and at California State University, Hayward.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566391237
• ISBN 13: 9781566391238
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible