Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves 

Ethnic enclaves: from traditional enclaves to new settlement patterns

This week, we will explore sociological understandings of ethnic enclaves since the 1965 Immigration Act with an influx of new immigrants to the United States, particularly from Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia; navigate a new insight on immigrants who did not fit into the dual labor market theory in the 60s; and discuss how sociologists had engaged with a debate on the ethnic enclave economy from the 70s to 90s.

Finally, we will discuss how recent scholars have paid attention to the emergence of new types of ethnic enclaves from ethnoburb to transclave.  You will read my article on transclave this week!

• Watch:
  • The racist history of US immigration policy

• • • U.S. Immigration Since 1965

• Read
  • Wei Li’s “Ethnoburb versus Chinatown : Two Types of Urban Ethnic Communities in Los AngelesConceptual Framework : Ethnoburb” in The European Journal of Geography.
  • Timothy Egan’s “Rise of the Ethnoburbs” in The New York Times Opinion
  • Jinwon Kim’s  “Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave: The Emergence of a New Ethnic Enclave in a Global City.” in City & Community 17(1): 276-295

• Note:

When you read my article, please read the literature review very carefully in order to learn more about the ethnic enclave economy debate; and learn why and how recent scholars, including Wei Li and Jinwon Kim, have analyzed the emergence of new ethnic enclaves.

While we focus on the structural changes that have led the emergence of new ethnic enclaves, we will explore more examples of new ethnic enclaves by paying attention to ethnic food and authenticity in the next class.

Ethnic food and authenticity in urban America

• Read
  • Elisabeth Becker’s “Little of Italy? Assumed Ethnicity in a New York City Neighbourhood.” in Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(1): pp. 109–124.
  • “How Little Italy Became Little Albanian-Mexican Italy” in The New York Times
• Watch
  • Inside The Chinese Food Mecca Of Los Angeles
    • Remember we have learned a new term, “ethnoburb.”

• • • Italian Corners – Little Italy – Manhattan – From Mulberry Street to Grand Street

• • • Belmont, The Bronx | DiverseCITY