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Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of historical legacies and personal and collective memories.
In Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown. Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. After 1945, a new generation of families began to shape Chinatown's future. As plans for urban renewalâranging from a cross-town expressway and commuter rail in the 1960s to a downtown baseball stadium in 2000âwere proposed and developed, "Save Chinatown" activists rose up and fought for social justice.
Wilson chronicles the community's efforts to save and renew itself through urban planning, territorial claims, and culturally specific rebuilding. She shows how these efforts led to Chinatown's growth and its continued ability to serve as a living community for subsequent waves of new immigration.
In Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown. Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. After 1945, a new generation of families began to shape Chinatown's future. As plans for urban renewalâranging from a cross-town expressway and commuter rail in the 1960s to a downtown baseball stadium in 2000âwere proposed and developed, "Save Chinatown" activists rose up and fought for social justice.
Wilson chronicles the community's efforts to save and renew itself through urban planning, territorial claims, and culturally specific rebuilding. She shows how these efforts led to Chinatown's growth and its continued ability to serve as a living community for subsequent waves of new immigration.
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Publisher
Temple University PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9781439912157, 9781439912140eBook ISBN
9781439912164Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Imagining Chinatown
- 1. Claiming Space, Creating Chinatown, 1870â1940
- 2. âChinatown was the safe spaceâ: Community, Memory, and Place, 1940â1980
- 3. âWe want homes, not highwaysâ: Urban Renewal and the âSave Chinatownâ Movement
- 4. âBe part of progress, not its sacrificial lambâ: Community-Development Strategies, 1970â2000
- 5. âA legacy of resistanceâ: Chinatown North and Twenty-First-Century Challenges
- 6. âWe are the ones who should be telling the storyâ: Representing Chinatown
- Epilogue: âIs, was, and will be Chinatownâ
- Appendix: Chinatown Populations
- Notes
- Index