商品簡介
The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S., disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places are harbingers of separatism or balkanization. Instead, the text argues that by better understanding the power and dynamics of ethnic enclaves and heritage places in our society, we as a society will be better prepared to harness the economic and cultural changes related to globalization rather than be hurt or divided by these same forces of economic and cultural restructuring.
作者簡介
Jan Lin is emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. in 1966. He has been teaching sociology at Occidental College since 1998. He is the author of Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and The Urban Sociology Reader (London: Routledge, 2005).
目次
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Doing Ethnic History from Coast to Coast
Chapter 2 Ethnic Communities and Cultural Heritage
Chapter 3 Ethnicity in America from World’s Fair to World City
Chapter 4 Ethnic Places, Postmodernism and Urban Change in Houston
Chapter 5 Heritage, Art and Community Development in Miami’s Overtown
and Little Havana
Chapter 6 Removal and Renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the Frontier
Pueblo to the Global City
Chapter 7 Preservation and Cultural Heritage in New York’s Chinatown and
Lower East Side and Impact of the 9/11 Disaster
Chapter 8 The Death and Life of Urban Ethnic Places
Bibliography
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