| Description |
1 online resource (v, 179 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Globalizing suburbia -- A town of immigrants -- Community and communities -- Strategies of assimilation and distinction -- Accommodating "others" -- Remaking Asian ethnicity in suburbia -- Reconsidering assimilation and ethnicity in the American suburb |
| Summary |
"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, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and 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. Fort Lee today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast, with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans forming distinct communities while influencing the structure and everyday life of the borough. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb--the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
East Asians -- New Jersey -- Fort Lee
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East Asians -- Cultural assimilation
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Ethnic attitudes -- New Jersey
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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East Asians
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Ethnic attitudes
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| SUBJECT |
Fort Lee (N.J.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
New Jersey
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New Jersey -- Fort Lee
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017056003 |
| ISBN |
9780813589046 |
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0813589045 |
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9780813588841 |
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0813588847 |
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