Noriko Matsumoto

Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb

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Produktbeschreibung

American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb, the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813588889
• ISBN-10: 081358888X
• Artikelnr.: 51382967

Autorenporträt

NORIKO MATSUMOTO is a lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she also teaches in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables 
Introduction:  Globalizing Suburbia
1    A Town of Immigrants
2    Community and Communities
3    Strategies of Assimilation and Distinction
4    Accommodating “Others”
5    Remaking Asian Ethnicity in Suburbia
Conclusion: Reconsidering Assimilation and Ethnicity in the American Suburb
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index