The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Herritage and Community Life

Offering educators a tool with which to spark student discovery of the multicultural heritage of American cities, Lin (sociology, Occidental College) explains cultural heritage research, documentary research, and field research opportunities in urban minority communities. Among his topics are doing ethnic history from coast to coast, ethnicity in America from the world's fair to world city, the removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from frontier pueblo to the global city, preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and lower east side and the impact of the 9/11 disaster, and the death and life of urban ethnic places. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jan Lin is emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. in 1966. He has been teaching sociology at Occidental College since 1998. He is the author of Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and The Urban Sociology Reader (London: Routledge, 2005).