Research Catalog

Title

Making a global immigrant neighborhood : Brooklyn's Sunset Park / Tarry Hum.

Author

Hum, Tarry, 1961-

Publication

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

viii, 286 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

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. "--

Series Statement

Asian American history and culture

Uniform Title

Asian American history and culture.

Alternative Title

Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-273) and index.

Call Number

IRM (Brooklyn) 14-6936

ISBN

• 9781439910900 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1439910901 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781439910917 (paper : alk. paper)
• 143991091X (paper : alk. paper)
• 9781439910924 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014004476

OCLC

861541336

Author

Hum, Tarry, 1961- author.

Title

Making a global immigrant neighborhood : Brooklyn's Sunset Park / Tarry Hum.

Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asian American history and culture

Asian American history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-273) and index.

Research Call Number

IRM (Brooklyn) 14-6936