“The Power of Place”: AAARI-CUNY Conference, April 27, 2012

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

In support of the “Power of Place” AAARI-CUNY Conference, we are making this issue available for a special blog price of $10 per book ($10 includes shipping and handling and applicable sales tax!).  Offer good until May 15, 2012.  Copies of the issue can be obtained by ordering via phone, email or mail.  Please contact the UCLA AASC Press for more detailed ordering information.
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