Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America

摘要: This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in United States Canada. Ethnoburbs - suburban clusters residential areas business districts large metropolitan are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, often multinational communities which one minority group has significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute majority. Wei Li documents processes that have evolved with spatial transformation Chinese American community Los Angeles converted San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs latter half twentieth century, she examines opportunities challenges occurred as result these changes. Traditional immigrant settlements customarily take form either ghettos or enclaves. Thus majority scholarly publications mass media covering described it Chinatown located Angeles' suburbs. offers completely different approach to understanding analyzing this fascinating place.