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Author Lai, James S

Title Asian American political action : suburban transformations / James S. Lai
Published Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The suburbanization of Asian American politics -- Political mobilization and incorporation : an analytical framework -- From exclusion to inclusion : the four stages of Asian American politics -- Locating contemporary political incorporation : the suburb vs. the metropolis -- Cupertino, California : a pan-ethnic suburb in Silicon Valley -- Garden Grove and Westminster, California : Vietnamese American political incorporation in Orange County's "Little Saigon" -- Gardena, California : two generations of a Japanese American majority city council -- Montgomery County, Maryland : emerging Asian American suburbs inside the Washington Beltway -- Sugar Land, Texas : the political awakenings of Asian Americans in a Houston suburb -- Bellevue, Washington : Asian American politics in a Pacific Northwest suburb -- Daly City, California : the barriers to Filipino American political incorporation -- Eau Claire, Wisconsin : the political rise of the Hmong American community -- Fitchburg, Massachusetts : the political incorporation of Asian Americans in a Boston suburb -- Forging ahead : the future political trajectories of Asian Americans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Asian Americans -- Politics and government
Asian Americans -- Politics and government -- Case studies
Immigrants -- Political activity -- United States
Political participation -- United States
Suburbs -- United States.
Suburban life -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Asian Americans -- Politics and government
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Political activity
Political participation
Politics and government
Suburban life
Suburbs
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781626372917
1626372918