Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown : space, place, and struggle / Kathryn E. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Kathryn E. (Kathryn Elizabeth), 1963- author.

Series:

Urban life, landscape, and policy

Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Chinese Americans.

Chinese Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

History.

Chinatown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.

Chinatown (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Chinatown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Social conditions.

Chinatown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Ethnic relations.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Ethnic relations.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages): illustrations, maps, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban Chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants, a safe space in which they raised families and conducted business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of historical legacies of struggle and a place for personal and collective memories. In Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown, Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. In 1945, Chinatown was on the brink of major change as a new generation of families began to shape its future. As plans for urban renewal-ranging from a crosstown expressway and commuter rail in the 1960s to a downtown baseball stadium in 2000-were proposed and developed in the following decades, "Save Chinatown" activists rose up and fought for social justice. Wilson chronicles the community's efforts to save and renew itself through urban planning, territorial claims, and culturally specific rebuilding. She shows how these efforts led to Chinatown's growth and its continued ability to serve as a living community for subsequent waves of new immigration. In the series Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy, edited by Zane L. Miller, David Stradling, and Larry Bennett Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Claiming Space, Creating Chinatown, 1870-1940 15

2 "Chinatown was the safe space": Community, Memory, and Place, 1940-1980 40

3 "We want homes, not highways": Urban Renewal and the "Save Chinatown" Movement 62

4 "Be part of progress, not its sacrificial lamb": Community-Development Strategies, 1970-2000 97

5 "A legacy of resistance": Chinatown North and Twenty-First-Century Challenges 124

6 "We are the ones who should be telling the story": Representing Chinatown 155.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Wilson, Kathryn E. (Kathryn Elizabeth), 1963- Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown : space, place, and struggle.

ISBN:

9781439912164

OCLC:

907375707

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.