Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing Asian American Communities -- Part One: Global Views of Asian American Communities -- Chapter 1: Intragroup Diversity: Asian American Population Dynamics and Challenges of the Twenty-first Century by Min Zhou -- Chapter 2: Ethnic Solidarity, Rebounding Networks, and Transnational Culture: The Post-1965 Chinese American Family by Haiming Liu -- Part Two: Asian Communities in America With Geographical Boundaries -- Chapter 3: Beyond a Common Ethnicity and Culture: Chicagoland's Chinese American Communities since 1945 by Ling Z. Arenson -- Chapter 4: Transforming an Ethnic Community: Little Saigon, Orange County by Linda Trinh Vo -- Chapter 5: Building a Community Center: Filipinas/os in San Francisco's Excelsior Neighborhood by Allyson Tintiango-Cubales -- Part Three: Asian Communities in America: With Cultural/Social Boundaries -- Chapter 6: Cultural Community: A New Model for Asian American Community by Huping Ling -- Chapter 7: Chinese Week: Building Chinese American Community through Festivity in Metropolitan Phoenix by Wei Zeng and Wei Li -- Chapter 8: Virtual Community and the Cultural Imaginary of Chinese Americans by Yuan Shu -- Chapter 9: Ethnic Solidarity in a Divided Community: A Study on Bridging Organizations in Koreatown by Angie Y. Chung -- Part Four: Asian Communities in Canada -- Chapter 10: The Social Construction of Chinese in Canada by Peter S. Li -- Chapter 11: Recent Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Canada: Trends and Obstacles by Li Zong -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas. Asian America is the first comprehensive look at post-1960s Asian American communities in the United States and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Contributors from an array of academic fields focus on global views of Asian American communities as well as on territorial and cultural boundaries. Presenting groundbreaking perspectives, Asian America revises worn assumptions and examines current challenges Asian American communities face in the twenty-first century.

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