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• catalog abstract "Monterey Park, California, is a community of 60,000 residents, located east of downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed by the media the "First Suburban Chinatown," Monterey Park is the only city in the continental United States with a majority Asian American population. Since the early 1970s, large numbers of Chinese immigrants moved there and transformed a quiet, predominantly white middle-class bedroom community into a bustling international boomtown. Timothy Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place in Monterey Park, as well as the political reactions to change. Although the city was initially recognized for its liberal attitude toward newcomers, rapid economic development and population growth spawned numerous problems. Greater density, traffic congestion, less open space and parking, and strain on city services are problems that any city would encounter with rapid unplanned growth. The prominence of Chinese-language business signs, and ethnic restaurants, markets, and shops persuaded many older residents to focus blame on the immigrants. Fong describes how, by 1986, the once ethnically diverse city council became predominantly white and promoted such "anti-Chinese" measures as controlled growth and English as the official language. Unlike earlier waves of Asian immigrants, many of the Chinese who settled in Monterey Park were affluent and well educated. Resentment over their rapid material success was fueled by pervasive anti-Asian sentiment throughout the country. Fearing that newcomers were "taking over" and refusing to assimilate, residents supported a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control." These initiatives were branded as "racist" by development interests, as well as by many of the usually apolitical Chinese in the city. Fong chronicles the evolution of the conflict and locates the beginnings of its recovery from internal strife and unwanted negative media attention. He demonstrates how the parallel emergence of a populist growth-control movement and a nativist anti-immigrant movement diverted attention from legitimate concerns over uncontrolled development in the city. Similar conflicts are occurring in other areas of California, as well as in New York City's Manhattan and Queens boroughs; Houston, Texas; and Orlando, Florida. Fong's detailed study of Monterey Park explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b4993227.
• catalog coverage "Monterey Park (Calif.) History.".
• catalog coverage "Monterey Park (Calif.) Social conditions.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "Although the city was initially recognized for its liberal attitude toward newcomers, rapid economic development and population growth spawned numerous problems. Greater density, traffic congestion, less open space and parking, and strain on city services are problems that any city would encounter with rapid unplanned growth. The prominence of Chinese-language business signs, and ethnic restaurants, markets, and shops persuaded many older residents to focus blame on the immigrants.".
• catalog description "Fearing that newcomers were "taking over" and refusing to assimilate, residents supported a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control." These initiatives were branded as "racist" by development interests, as well as by many of the usually apolitical Chinese in the city. Fong chronicles the evolution of the conflict and locates the beginnings of its recovery from internal strife and unwanted negative media attention.".
• catalog description "Fong describes how, by 1986, the once ethnically diverse city council became predominantly white and promoted such "anti-Chinese" measures as controlled growth and English as the official language.".
• catalog description "He demonstrates how the parallel emergence of a populist growth-control movement and a nativist anti-immigrant movement diverted attention from legitimate concerns over uncontrolled development in the city. Similar conflicts are occurring in other areas of California, as well as in New York City's Manhattan and Queens boroughs; Houston, Texas; and Orlando, Florida. Fong's detailed study of Monterey Park explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction : A new and dynamic community -- Ramona Acres to the Chinese Beverly Hills : Demographic change -- Enter the dragon : Economic change -- "I don't feel at home anymore" : Social and cultural change -- Community fragmentation and the slow-growth movement -- Controlled growth and the official-English movement -- "City with a heart"? -- The politics of realignment -- Theoterical perspectives on Montery Park -- Conclusion : From marginal to mainstream.".
• catalog description "Monterey Park, California, is a community of 60,000 residents, located east of downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed by the media the "First Suburban Chinatown," Monterey Park is the only city in the continental United States with a majority Asian American population. Since the early 1970s, large numbers of Chinese immigrants moved there and transformed a quiet, predominantly white middle-class bedroom community into a bustling international boomtown.".
• catalog description "Timothy Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place in Monterey Park, as well as the political reactions to change.".
• catalog description "Unlike earlier waves of Asian immigrants, many of the Chinese who settled in Monterey Park were affluent and well educated. Resentment over their rapid material success was fueled by pervasive anti-Asian sentiment throughout the country.".
• catalog extent "ix, 219 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1566391237".
• catalog isPartOf "Asian American history and culture".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Temple University Press,".
• catalog spatial "California Monterey Park".
• catalog spatial "Monterey Park (Calif.) History.".
• catalog spatial "Monterey Park (Calif.) Social conditions.".
• catalog subject "979.4/93 20".
• catalog subject "Chinese Americans California Monterey Park History.".
• catalog subject "Chinese Americans California Monterey Park Social conditions.".
• catalog subject "F869.M7 F68 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : A new and dynamic community -- Ramona Acres to the Chinese Beverly Hills : Demographic change -- Enter the dragon : Economic change -- "I don't feel at home anymore" : Social and cultural change -- Community fragmentation and the slow-growth movement -- Controlled growth and the official-English movement -- "City with a heart"? -- The politics of realignment -- Theoterical perspectives on Montery Park -- Conclusion : From marginal to mainstream.".
• catalog title "The first suburban Chinatown : the remaking of Monterey Park, California / Timothy P. Fong.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".