The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society / Edition 1

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Overview

This book focuses on three ethnic neighborhoods in San Francisco--commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown, and defunct Manilatown--and argues that the city is global because it comprises a multiplicity of global niches in its midst that interface with and sustain each other at the local level. According to Michel Laguerre, these enclaves are not simply transnational communities, but global ethnopoles. They must be seen within the logic of globalization and not simply that of transnationality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312226121
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/30/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Michel S. Laguerre teaches Anthropology and Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Little Americas"
• The Global Ethnopolis
• Chinatown: The Ethnopole as an Informal Capital City
• Japantown: The Deglobalization of an Ethnopole
• Manilatown: Global Exclusion and Global Margins
• The Ethnopole as a Global City
• The Global Space of the Ethnopole
• The Global Ethnopole in the Global City

Editorial Reviews

Looking at commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown, and defunct Manilatown in San Francisco, Laguerre (social anthropology and Afro-American studies, U. of California- Berkeley) argues that the city is global because it comprises a multiplicity of global niches that interface and sustain each other at the local level. The emphasis most studies place on transnationality is outmoded and misplaced, he says, because that is only the transport mechanism by which the global ethnopole is produced, and what matters is how they behave and interact once they exist. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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