Lin The Power of Urban Ethnic Places

Cultural Heritage and Community Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-136-90986-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: The Metropolis and Modern Life

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Endnotes 334

Über Autor(innen)

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).