The global ethnopolis : Chinatown, Japantown, and Manilatown in American society / Michel S. Laguerre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laguerre, Michel S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic neighborhoods--California--San Francisco.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Asian Americans--California--San Francisco.

Asian Americans.

Internationalism--Case studies.

Internationalism.

Relations.

United States--Relations--Asia--Case studies.

United States.

Asia--Relations--United States--Case studies.

Asia.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Looking at commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown, and defunct Manilatown in San Francisco, Laguerre (social anthropology and Afro-American studies, U. of California- Berkeley) argues that the city is global because it comprises a multiplicity of global niches that interface and sustain each other at the local level. The emphasis most studies place on transnationality is outmoded and misplaced, he says, because that is only the transport mechanism by which the global ethnopole is produced, and what matters is how they behave and interact once they exist.

Contents:

Introduction: "Little Americas" 1

1 The Global Ethnopolis 18

2 Chinatown: The Ethnopole as an Informal Capital City 28

3 Japantown: The Deglobalization of an Ethnopole 53

4 Manilatown: Global Exclusion and Global Margins 76

5 The Ethnopole as a Global City 110

6 The Global Space of the Ethnopole 129

7 The Global Ethnopole in the Global City 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333777891

0312226128

OCLC:

41387603