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OF PEOPLE, PLACE, AND PROCESS: THE IMPACT
OF GLOBALIZATION ON ASIAN AMERICAN
COMMUNITIES
Rethinking the Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown, and Manilatown
in American Society. By Michel S. Laguerre. New York: St. Martin's
Press, Inc., 2000. xii + 199 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95.
Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization. Edited
by Evelyn HuDeHart. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xii +
220 pp. $34.50.
Karen J. Leong
Arizona State University
The emergence of the Pacific Rim economy has dramatically altered the
contexts in which transnationality is expressed and experienced. Both Rethinking the Global Ethnopolis and Across the Pacific seek to make sense of how
Asian Americans have experienced these changes, without flattening the dynamic nature of the relationships that maintain and perpetuate the global connections linking these communities to the United States and Asian nations. Yet
these books differ dramatically in analytical perspective: the former examines
Asian American communities as spatial entities, and the latter focuses on the
experiences of individuals who constitute Asian America.
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