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Book Talk with Laureen Hom: The Power of Chinatown
Join CHSA for an in-depth presentation with author and scholar Laureen Hom about her book, The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles.
BACKGROUND
The Power of Chinatown is the culmination of my research on Los Angeles Chinatown that examines community politics and gentrification since the 1970s. The book includes over four years of intensive fieldwork in the 2010s, including interviews with community leaders and activists across generations, participant-observations in the neighborhood, and archival research spanning 80 years of Chinatown's history.
Los Angeles Chinatown continues to be an important site for community and political belonging for Chinese and Asian Americans across the region. Yet, Chinatown is more than just a symbolic and historic neighborhood. The threats of gentrification and forced displacement are also (re)structuring the material and social conditions of the neighborhood. As Chinatown continues to be a dynamic neighborhood that is a home for generations of working-class immigrants, the political engagement and activism of Chinese and Asian Americans who converge in Chinatown raise important questions as to how they not only raise the political visibility of Chinese and Asian Americans, but also specifically respond to the material conditions of the neighborhood to support the most economically and socially vulnerable within the community.
ADMISSION
$5 general admission
$28 includes admission and a copy of her book
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