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100 _aLin, Jan
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245 _aPower of urban ethnic places :
_bcultural heritage and community life /
_cby Jan Lin
260 _bRoutledge,
_c2011.
_aNew York:
300 _axx,: 291 p.
500 _aDoing ethnic history from coast to coast. Ethnic communities and cultural heritage. Ethnicity in America from World's Fair to world city. Ethnic places, postmodernism, and urban change in Houston. Heritage, art, and community development in Miami's Overtown and Little Havana. Removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the frontier Pueblo to the global city. Preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side and impact of the 9/11 disaster. The death and life of urban ethnic places
505 _a Doing ethnic history from coast to coast -- Ethnic communities and cultural heritage -- Ethnicity in America from World's Fair to world city -- Ethnic places, postmodernism, and urban change in Houston -- Heritage, art, and community development in Miami's Overtown and Little Havana -- Removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the frontier Pueblo to the global city -- Preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side and impact of the 9/11 disaster -- The death and life of urban ethnic places.
520 _aDiscusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in US society. This book examines various case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the US, disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places are harbingers of separatism or balkanization
650 _aSociology, Urban
_vUnited States
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650 _a Sociology, Urban
_vUnited States
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650 _a Ethnic neighborhoods
_vUnited States
_x History
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650 _a Minorities
_vUnited States
_x Politics and government;
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