TY - BOOK AU - Lin, Jan TI - Power of urban ethnic places : : cultural heritage and community life SN - 9780415879835 U1 - 307.7608900973 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Sociology, Urban KW - United States KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Ethnic neighborhoods KW - History KW - Minorities KW - Politics and government N1 - Doing ethnic history from coast to coast. Ethnic communities and cultural heritage. Ethnicity in America from World's Fair to world city. Ethnic places, postmodernism, and urban change in Houston. Heritage, art, and community development in Miami's Overtown and Little Havana. Removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the frontier Pueblo to the global city. Preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side and impact of the 9/11 disaster. The death and life of urban ethnic places; Doing ethnic history from coast to coast -- Ethnic communities and cultural heritage -- Ethnicity in America from World's Fair to world city -- Ethnic places, postmodernism, and urban change in Houston -- Heritage, art, and community development in Miami's Overtown and Little Havana -- Removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the frontier Pueblo to the global city -- Preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side and impact of the 9/11 disaster -- The death and life of urban ethnic places N2 - Discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in US society. This book examines various case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the US, disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places are harbingers of separatism or balkanization ER -