Timothy P. Fong: The First Suburban Chinatown

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Ethnicity issues fuel internal strife as a community faces change<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391238&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The First Suburban Chinatown</h1> <H2>The Remarking of Monterey Park, California</H2> <h3>Timothy P. Fong</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-123-7 $81.50, Jan 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-262-4 $28.95, Sep 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 240 pp 6x9 14 tables 2 figures 8 halftones </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999</font></P> <P><font color="#996633">Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995</font></P> </H3> <p>Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese immigrants transformed it into a bustling international boomtown. It is now the only city in the United States with a majority Asian American population. Timothy P. Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place there, and the political reactions to the change. <p>Fong, a former journalist, reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control," including a movement to make English the official language. Recounting the internal strife and the beginnings of recovery, Fong explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>Introduction: A New and Dynamic Community <br>1. Ramona Acres to the Chinese Beverly Hills: Demographic Change <br>2. Enter the Dragon: Economic Change <br>3. "I Don't Feel at Home Anymore": Social and Cultural Change <br>4. Community Fragmentation and the Slow-Growth Movement <br>5. Controlled Growth and the Official-English Movement <br>6. "City with a Heart"? <br>7. The Politics of Realignment <br>8. Theoretical Perspectives on Monterey Park <br>Conclusion: From Marginal to Mainstream <br>Notes <br>Select Bibliography <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/997_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Timothy P. Fong</B> teaches at the University of California, Davis, and at California State University, Hayward.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a> <BR> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ. </p><p>The "standard" written histories of Asian immigrants to the United States have been imbued with Western cultural biases. As a critique and corrective to earlier work, <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ, aims to develop a history of Asian Americans that is compatible with their own experience, that treats Asian Americans as agents of historical change and as creators of a new culture. In addition, this series intends to focus on the groups that are flourishing in the contemporary U.S.&#151Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese&#151about whom little has been written as well as to add to the substantial work done on the Chinese and Japanese in this country.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391238&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2009 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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