Trespassers? (eBook)

Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

Willow S Lung-Amam (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96722-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region's booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials revealed complex attitudes in even the most well-heeled and diverse communities. Trespassers? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of these dramatic demographic shifts. At the broadest level, it raises questions about the rights of diverse populations to their own piece of the suburbanAmerican Dream. It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nations largest Asian Americanmajority cities. There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by investing in local schools, neighborhoods, and shopping centers. It also provides a textured tale of the tensions that emerge over this suburbs changing environment. With vivid storytelling, Trespassers? uncovers suburbia as an increasingly important place for immigrants and minorities to register their claims for equality and inclusion.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Landscapes of Difference

1 • The New Gold Mountain
2 • A Quality Education for Whom?
3 • Mainstreaming the Asian Mall
4 • That “Monster House” Is My Home
5 • Charting New Suburban Storylines
Afterword: Keeping the Dream Alive in Troubled Times

Appendix: Methods for Revealing Hidden Suburban Narratives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: American dream • Asian American • Asian American studies • China • Chinese immigrants • Demographics • Diversity • economy • environmental • Equality • Ethnic Diversity • Gentrification • Global • Google • Immigration • Inclusion • India • Indian Immigrants • Migration • minority groups • Population Growth • Racial Diversity • racial identity • regional • Silicon Valley • Southern California • Suburban • Taiwan • taiwanese immigrants • tech economy • tech industry • Technology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96722-4 / 0520967224
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96722-9 / 9780520967229