Tarry Hum

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

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Produktbeschreibung

Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Produktdetails

• Asian American History & Cultu
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910917
• ISBN-10: 143991091X
• Artikelnr.: 39762810

Autorenporträt

Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
1 Immigrant Places: Toward a Theory of Global Neighborhoods
2 Making Sunset Park: Settlement, Decline, and Transformation
3 The Working Poverty of Neighborhood Revitalization: Industrial Sweatshops
and Street Vendors
4 Immigrant Growth Coalitions and Neighborhood Change: The Role of Ethnic
Banks
5 Gentrifying Sunset Park: Community Boards, City Planning, and a Migrant
Civil Society
6 Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, and Open Space: The Politics
of a Sustainable Working Waterfront
 
Conclusion
 
Notes
References
Index