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Author : Bernard P. Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Patronage, Brokerage, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese Community of New York written by Bernard P. Wong and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huping Ling
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548675
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Asian America written by Huping Ling and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Hsiang-Shui Chen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721364
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Chinatown No More written by Hsiang-Shui Chen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.
Author : Donald Robert DeGlopper
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426890
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Lukang written by Donald Robert DeGlopper and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropological study of the social organization and local history in Lukang, a city in Taiwan.
Author : Timothy Fong
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904634
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The First Suburban Chinatown written by Timothy Fong and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity issues fuel internal strife as a community faces change.
Author : Wei Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830652
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Ethnoburb written by Wei Li and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs—suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas—are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes. Traditional ethnic and immigrant settlements customarily take the form of either ghettos or enclaves. Thus the majority of scholarly publications and mass media covering the San Gabriel Valley has described it as a Chinatown located in Los Angeles’ suburbs. Li offers a completely different approach to understanding and analyzing this fascinating place. By conducting interviews with residents, a comparative spatial examination of census data and other statistical sources, and fieldwork—coupled with her own holistic view of the area—Li gives readers an effective and fine-tuned socio-spatial analysis of the evolution of a new type of racially defined place. The San Gabriel Valley tells a unique story, but its evolution also speaks to those experiencing a similar type of ethnic and racial conurbation. In sum, Li sheds light on processes that are shaping other present (and future) ethnically and racially diverse communities. The concept of the ethnoburb has redefined the way geographers and other scholars think about ethnic space, place, and process. This book will contribute significantly to both theoretical and empirical studies of immigration by presenting a more intensive and thorough "take" on arguments about spatial and social processes in urban and suburban America.
Author : Xiaojian Zhao
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549124
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The New Chinese America written by Xiaojian Zhao and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. In this detailed and comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs. Through ethnic ties, Chinese Americans have built an economy of their own in which entrepreneurs can maintain a competitive edge given their access to low-cost labor; workers who are shut out of the mainstream job market can find work and make a living; and consumers can enjoy high quality services at a great bargain. While the growth of the ethnic economy enhances ethnic bonds by increasing mutual dependencies among different groups of Chinese Americans, it also determines the limits of possibility for various individuals depending on their socioeconomic and immigration status.
Author : Su Zheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199873593
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Claiming Diaspora written by Su Zheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals the rich and diverse musical activities among Chinese Americans and tells of the struggles of Chinese Americans to gain a foothold in the American cultural terrain. She not only tells their stories, but also examines the dynamics of the diasporic connections of this musical culture, revealing how Chinese American musical activities both reflect and contribute to local, national, and transnational cultural politics, and challenging us to take a fresh look at the increasingly plural and complex nature of American cultural identity.
Author : Judith N. DeSena
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 076231477X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Gender in an Urban World written by Judith N. DeSena and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings the analysis of gender from the margin to the center of urban theory. This volume examines the influence of gender in shaping relations in urban spaces and places. It represents a "crack" in the landscape of urban sociology, and engages in the discourse of the field from a gendered perspective.
Author : Nayeem Sultana
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 382581629X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Bangladeshi Diaspora in Malaysia written by Nayeem Sultana and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study explores the organizational structure, modes of networking and the survival strategies of Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia. Looking at the very diverse social reality, differentiation and power dimensions within the community this study will facilitate our understanding of the Bangladeshi Diaspora in selected multi-cultural social setting of Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru.
Author : Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481277
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Organizing Crime in Chinatown written by Jeffrey Scott McIllwain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive underworlds and corrupt urban politics of the Progressive Era United States. The process of organizing crime in Chinese American communities can be attributed in part to the larger politics that created opportunities for professional criminals. For example, the illegal traffic in women, laborers, and opium was an unintended consequence of "yellow peril" laws meant to provide social control over Chinese Americans. Despite this hostile climate, Chinese professional criminals were able to form extensive multiethnic social networks and purchase protection and some semblance of entrepreneurial equality from corrupt politicians, police officers, and bureaucrats. While other Chinese Americans worked diligently to remove racist laws and regulations, Chinatown gangsters saw opportunity for profit and power at the expense of their own community. Academics, the media, and the government have claimed that Chinese organized crime is a new and emerging threat to the United States. Focusing on events and personalities, and drawing on intensive archival research in newspapers, police and court documents, district attorney papers, and municipal reports, as well as from contemporary histories and sociological treatments, this study tests that claim against the historical record.
Author : Huping Ling
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783365
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Chinese Chicago written by Huping Ling and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this sweeping account, Huping Ling offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese in Chicago, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present. Ling focuses on how race, transnational migration, and community have defined Chinese in Chicago. Drawing upon archival documents in English and Chinese, she charts how Chinese made a place for themselves among the multiethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, cultivating friendships with local authorities and consciously avoiding racial conflicts. Ling takes readers through the decades, exploring evolving family structures and relationships, the development of community organizations, and the operation of transnational businesses. She pays particular attention to the influential role of Chinese in Chicago's academic and intellectual communities and to the complex and conflicting relationships among today's more dispersed Chinese Americans in Chicago.
Author : Ronald Skeldon
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563244315
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Exiles? written by Ronald Skeldon and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Hong Kong emigrants both within the context of their home society and within their new host communities. The contributers include geographers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, a political scientist, an educationist, an urban planner, and a sinologist. The volume is divided into seven parts: setting the scene; the historical and geographical context; Canada; Australasia; US; a European and an Asian destination (the UK and Singapore); and conclusion ("Migration from Hong Kong: Current Trends and Future Agendas"). Paper edition (432-2), $27.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bernard P. Wong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742539402
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Chinese in Silicon Valley written by Bernard P. Wong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Wong examines the complex role of Chinese-American scientists and engineers in their ever-increasing role in Silicon Valley, where those who settle there must learn how to prosper despite a changing cultural identity, changes in family life and new citizenship.
Author : Robert J. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461548837
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Upperworld and the Underworld written by Robert J. Kelly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Damon Runyan's colorful tough guys in black shirts and white ties to recent media coverage of John Gotti, the `dapper don', public depictions of racketeers in the United States have drawn attention away from the true nature of organized crime and its extensive penetrations into mainstream business. The Upperworld and the Underworld: Case Studies of Racketeering and Business Infiltrations in the United States strips away the romantic patina and reveals the significant impact of racketeering on vital segments of American industry. In this informative study Robert Kelly explores two fundamental questions: `Why is organized crime a serious problem in some businesses and industries, and not in others?' and `What are the consequences of racketeering activities for labor organizations and businesses tainted by a criminal presence?' He examines the blurred demarcation between the legitimate and illegitimate sectors of society and explains the reasons for this occurrence. In the process, Kelly provides a distinct vantage point for understanding organized crime, not just as an `outlaw fringe' preying on society, but as a disturbingly integral element of our social and economic structure. Moreover, he confirms a widely held thesis that organized crime is not merely parasitic but an institutional component of American society. The Upperworld and the Underworld affords a fascinating view of the current state of organized crime in the United States and the rise of nontraditional criminal organizations in new immigrant communities. The volume is an essential resource for students and scholars concerned with issues of crime and its effects on the economy.
Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252072536
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (725 download)
Download or read book In Defense of Asian American Studies written by Sucheng Chan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Defense of Asian American Studies offers fascinating tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. Wielding intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humor, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the University of California system as Asian American studies was first developed--in response to vehement student demand--under the rubric of ethnic studies. Chan speaks by turns as an advocate and an administrator striving to secure a place for Asian American studies; as a teacher working to give Asian American students a voice and white students a perspective on race and racism; and as a scholar and researcher still asking her own questions. The essays span three decades and close with a piece on the new challenges facing Asian American studies. Eloquently documenting a field of endeavor in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other, In Defense of Asian American Studies combines analysis, personal experience, and indispensable practical advice for those engaged in building and sustaining Asian American studies programs.
Author : Robert Ji-Song Ku
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810231
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Eating Asian America written by Robert Ji-Song Ku and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fully of provocation and insight." - Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of War, Genocide, and Justice
