Changs Next Door to the Dï¿½azes Remapping Race in Suburban California

Name: Changs Next Door to the Dï¿½azes Remapping Race in Suburban California
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ISBN: 9780816679829

ISBN-10: 0816679827

ISBN-13: 9780816679829

Edition: 2013

Authors: Wendy Cheng

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U.S. suburbs are typically imagined to be predominantly white communities. This is increasingly untrue in many parts of the country, however. Examining a multiracial suburb that is decidedly nonwhite, Wendy Cheng unpacks questions of how identity—especially racial identity—is shaped by place. She offers an in-depth portrait, enriched by nearly seventy interviews, of the San Gabriel Valley, not far from downtown Los Angeles where approximately 60 percent of residents are Asian American and more than 30 percent are Latino. At first glance, the cities of the San Gabriel Valley look like stereotypical suburbs, but almost no one who lives there is white.The Changs Next Door to the Diazes reveals…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Theorizing Regional Racial Formation



Not "For Caucasians Only": Race, Property; and Homeownership



"The Asian and Latino Thing in Schools": Academic Achievement and Racialized Privilege



"Just Like Any Other Boy"? Race and the San Gabriel Valley Boy Scouts of America



Diversity on Main Street: Civic Landscapes and Historical Geographies of Race



SGV Dreamgirl: Interracial Intimacies and the Production of Place


Conclusion: How Localized Knowledges Travel


Appendix: Cognitive Maps of Race, Place, and Region


Notes


Bibliography


Index