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974.7-L |
Summary |
In this ethnography Jan Lin brilliantly explodes multiple fables about Chinatown constructed by white mythmakers over the last century. Polticians, movies, and TV shows have created stereotypes of dangerous or mysterious 'Orientals' and of exotic urban zones and red light districts. This anti-immigrant imagery gives way as we see the complexity and vitality of life in Manhattan's Chinatown community, a real place with the sights and sounds of real people. These Americans have built community in the face of chronic intrusions-from government redevelopment and deferal immigration policy to corporate exploitation and cycling investment from China. Lin reveals the problems and change characteristic of urban communities thrust increasingly into the globalizing economy of the late twentieth century. -excerpt from the back of the book |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Lin, Jan |
Subjects |
Chinese Americans--New York (State)--New York--Politics and government. Chinese Americans--New York (State)--New York--Economic conditions. Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)--Politics and government. Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)--Economic conditions. New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government. New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions. |
Title |
Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change |
Published Date |
1998 |
Physical Description |
xix, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Catalog Number |
2014.007.010 |
Accession number |
2014.007 |
Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press |
Collection |
Public Affairs Television |
Year Range from |
1998 |
Year Range to |
1998 |