Resisting Change in Suburbia

Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-34585-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 306 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians

Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Americans in Los Angeles moved toward becoming a racial majority in the communities of the East San Gabriel Valley. By the late 1990s, their "model minority" status resulted in greater influence in local culture, neighborhood politics, and policies regarding the use of suburban space. In the "country living" subdivisions, which featured symbols of Western agrarianism including horse trails, ranch fencing, and Spanish colonial architecture, white homeowners encouraged assimilation and enacted policies suppressing unwanted "changes"—that is, increased density and influence of Asian culture. While some Asian suburbanites challenged whites' concerns, many others did not. Rather, white critics found support from affluent Asian homeowners who also wished to protect their class privilege and suburbia's conservative Anglocentric milieu. In Resisting Change in Suburbia, award-winning historian James Zarsadiaz explains how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas about race and belonging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zarsadiaz, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 • Constructing “Country Living”
2 • The People of “Country Living”
3 • Asian Families Making a Home in the Suburbs
4 • Asian Suburbanites in the “In-Between”
5 • Growth and the Imminent Death of “Country Living”
6 • To Remain Country, Become a City

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Zarsadiaz is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at the University of San Francisco.