Forever Struggle
«Forever Struggle is an accessibly written and broad political, social, and economic history of Boston's Chinatown. Liu has uncovered the fascinating and previously overlooked story of one of Boston's most vital ethnic communities."—Anthony Bak Buccitelli, author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
"Forever Struggle describes opportunities for and challenges to building cross-racial alliances that address shared concerns regarding police brutality, environmental racism, bureaucratic, real estate-driven city planning, and exclusion from local policy decision-making. This is the most important contribution of this book . . . most Chinatown studies tend to emphasize these communitie 'enclave' qualities, reinforcing the sense of insularity, self-sufficiency, and clannishness."—Tarry Hum, author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park»
Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more prominent voice over their community's fate. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781625345455
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Forever Struggle is an accessibly written and broad political, social, and economic history of Boston's Chinatown. Liu has uncovered the fascinating and previously overlooked story of one of Boston's most vital ethnic communities."—Anthony Bak Buccitelli, author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
"Forever Struggle describes opportunities for and challenges to building cross-racial alliances that address shared concerns regarding police brutality, environmental racism, bureaucratic, real estate-driven city planning, and exclusion from local policy decision-making. This is the most important contribution of this book . . . most Chinatown studies tend to emphasize these communitie 'enclave' qualities, reinforcing the sense of insularity, self-sufficiency, and clannishness."—Tarry Hum, author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park»