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    Asian America
    Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries

    Huping Ling (Edited by), Haiming Liu (Contributions by), Huping Ling (Contributions by), Min Zhou (Contributions by), Ling Arenson (Contributions by), Linda Trinh Vo (Contributions by), Allyson Tintiangco-Cubalse (Contributions by), Wei Zeng (Contributions by), Wei Li (Contributions by), Yuan Shu (Contributions by), Angie Y. Chung (Contributions by), Peter Li (Contributions by), Li Zong (Contributions by)

    9780813544878

    Paperback / softback, published 29 April 2009

    304 pages, 2
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.482 kg

    This volume of solid scholarship presents fresh and original researchfindings highlighting new phenomena in Asian American communities.
    - Shehong Chen (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)

    The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas.

    Asian America is the first comprehensive look at post-1960s Asian American communities in the United States and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Contributors from an array of academic fields focus on global views of Asian American communities as well as on territorial and cultural boundaries.

    Presenting groundbreaking perspectives, Asian America revises worn assumptions and examines current challenges Asian American communities face in the twenty-first century.

    acknowledgements
    introduction: reconceptualizing asian american communities

    part one global views of asian american communities
    • 1 intragroup diversity: asiam american population dynamics and challenges of the twenty-first century
    • 2 ethnic solidarity, rebounding networks, and transnational culture: the post-1965 chinese american family

    part two asian communities in america: with georgraphical boundaries
    • 3 beyond a common ethnicity and culture: chicagoland's chinese american communities in 1945
    • 4 transforming an ethnic community: little saigon, organe county
    • 5 building a community center: filipinas/os in san francisco's excelsior nrighborhood

    part three asian communities in america: with cultural/social boundaries
    • 6 cultural community: a new model for asian american community
    • 7 chinese week: building chinese american community through festivity in metropolitan phoenix
    • 8 virtual community and the cultural imaginary of chinese americans
    • 9 ethnic solidarity in a divided community: a study on bridging organizations in koreatown

    part four asian commmunities in canada
    • 10 the social construction of chinese in canada
    • 11 recent mainland chinese immigrants in canada: trends and obstacles

    selected bibliography
    notes on contributors
    index

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