Making a global immigrant neighborhood : Brooklyn's Sunset Park

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Label

Making a global immigrant neighborhood : Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Title remainder

Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Statement of responsibility

Tarry Hum

Creator

• Hum, Tarry, 1961-

Subject

• Community development -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Ethnic neighborhoods
• Ethnic neighborhoods -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• History
• Immigrants
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Sunset Park
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
• Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History
• Community development

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. Hum pays close attention to the complex social, political, and spatial dynamics that forge a community and create new models of leadership as well as coalitions. The evolution of Sunset Park so astutely depicted in this book suggests new avenues for studying urban change and community development. "--

Member of

• Asian American history and culture

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

HN80.N5

LC item number

H845 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Asian American history and culture