Awards
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2007
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2007.
Overview
Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception and is now experiencing watershed changes in its social, cultural, and ethnic/racial geographies. Considering the impact of these transformations, this unique text examines a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. The contributors present a rich set of case studies of key ethnic and racial communities-including those of long-standing significance such as Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans, along with the Latin American and Asian groups that make up the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case offers a brief historical overview of the group's immigration experience and settlement patterns and discusses how it has transformed-and been transformed by-the places in which they have settled. Exploring changing communities, places, and landscapes, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the evolution of America's ethnic geographies.
Full Product Details
Author: Ines M. Miyares , Christopher A. Airriess
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 18.70cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 26.60cm
Weight: 1.044kg
ISBN: 9780742537729
ISBN 10: 0742537722
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 19 October 2006
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock 
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Exploring Contemporary Ethnic Geographies, Christopher A. Airriess and Ines M. Miyares Chapter 2: Creating Contemporary Ethnic Geographies: A Review of Immigration Law, Ines M. Miyares and Christopher A. Airriess Chapter 3: Native Americans, Kate A. Berry, Zoltan Grossman, and L. HoMana Pawiki Chapter 4: The Historical Spaces of African Americans, Bobby M. Wilson Chapter 5: Settlement Geographies of Mexican Americans, Daniel D. Arreola Chapter 6: Caribbean Hispanics: Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans, Thomas D. Boswell and Terry-Ann Jones Chapter 7: Non-Hispanic West Indians in New York City, Milton Vickerman Chapter 8: Central Americans: Legal Status and Settledness, Ines M. Miyares Chapter 9: Andean South Americans and Cultural Networks, Marie Price Chapter 10: Chinese Americans: Community Formation in Time and Space, Wei Li Chapter 11: Korean Culture and Entrepreneurship, Dana G. Reimer Chapter 12: Filipinos: The Invisible Ethnic Community, James A. Tyner Chapter 13: Asian Indians and the Construction of Community and Identity, Emily Skop Chapter 14: Conflict Migrants from Mainland Southeast Asia, Christopher A. Airriess Chapter 15: Immigrants from the Muslim World: Lebanese and Iranians, Elizabeth Chacko Chapter 16: New Urban Ethnic Landscapes, Brian J. Godfrey Chapter 17: Immigrants at Work, Michael Reibel Chapter 18: Ethnic Festivals, Cultural Tourism, and Pan-Ethnicity, Michael Hawkins
Reviews
This volume will be extremely useful to those dealing with border studies, urban studies, urban planning, cultural diversity, geography of the United States, ethnic gateway communities, transnational communities, cultural networks, and conflict immigrants. -- Sarah Osgood Brooks Professional Geographer Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America provides an academic audience with a rich and varied set of case studies framed by contemporary theoretical and historical perspectives in one accessible text. This book would serve as a welcome addition to both undergraduate and graduate courses in multiple disciplines within the social sciences. Ethnic and Racial Studies Impressive... This unique volume provides a very useful assessment of the ethnic landscape of the U.S. utilizing the concepts of social and human geography, nicely supplementing the bulk of existing work on the contemporary immigrant U.S., which is primarily written by social scientists from other disciplines. Highly recommended. CHOICE
This volume will be extremely useful to those dealing with border studies, urban studies, urban planning, cultural diversity, geography of the United States, ethnic gateway communities, transnational communities, cultural networks, and conflict immigrants.--Sarah Osgood Brooks Professional Geographer 2008
Author Information
Ines M. Miyares is professor of geography at Hunter College, CUNY, and executive director of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Christopher A. Airriess is professor of geography at Ball State University.
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