In recent decades, the 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, New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive waves of immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region.
In recent decades, the 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, New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive waves of immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region.
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.
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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
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
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