Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI-CUNY) is holding a day-long conference on April 27, 2012 entitled “The Power of Place—Asian American Neighborhoods, Politics & Activism Today.” The 2012 AAARI annual conference brings together urban sociologists, student activists, and community professionals to discuss current issues that impact Asian Americans. These issues include:
* The Future of Ethnic Neighborhoods from New York to Los Angeles
* Comparative Approaches to Look at Gentrification in Boston, Philadelphia and New York
* Putting Asian Americans on the Map and Redistricting
* Student Activism, Occupy Wall Street and the Danny Chen case
* Standing Up for the Dream Act and Immigration
For more information, please see: http://www.aaari.info/2012power.htm.
In anticipation of this conference, Amerasia Journal would like to share the Table of Contents from our Volume 34, Number 3 (2008) issue entitled: “How Do AsianAmericans Create Places? Los Angeles and Beyond.”
Table of Contents
Introduction: How Do Asian Americans Create Places?: From Background to Foreground by Russell C. Leong and Kyeyoung Park
A Profile of the Asian American & Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Population in Los Angeles County & the United States by Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca
Three Worlds mural of the Wat Thai Temple, Silicon Valley. Photograph by Jiemin Bao
- I. Inventing Identities
From Wandering to Wat: Creating a Thai Temple and Inventing New Space in the United States by Jiemin Bao
Recreating Hmong History: An Examination of www.youtube.com Videos by Eric Yang
Boundaries of Gender and Ethnicity: Gujarati Hindu Women in Artesia’s “Little India” by Surekha Acharya and Lalit N. Acharya
II. Creating Communities
Rethinking Residential Assimilation: The Case of a Chinese Ethnoburb in the San Gabriel Valley, California by Min Zhou, Yen-Fen Tseng, and Rebecca Y. Kim
Constructing a Vietnamese American Community: Economic and Political Transformation in Little Saigon, Orange County by Linda Trinh Võ
Los Angeles Chinatown: Tourism, Gentrification, and the Rise of an Ethnic Growth Machine by Jan Lin
The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring, Gentrification, and Displacement by Kyeyoung Park and Jessica Kim
Little India, Artesia, California. Photograph by Charles Ku, 2001
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