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

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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.



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"This book focuses on three ethnic neighbourhoods 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 that interface with and sustain one another at the local level. According to the author, these enclaves are not simply transnational communities but, rather, global ethnopoles. The focus here is on various processes of border-crossing practices, connections, and flows in order to examine the globalized locality and the localized globality. Any theory of transnationality presupposes a theory of globalization. In other words, transnationality is the process by which globality is effected."--BOOK JACKET.


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



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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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