Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagining Chinatown
1. Claiming Space, Creating Chinatown, 1870–1940
2. “Chinatown was the safe space”: Community, Memory, and Place, 1940–1980
3. “We want homes, not highways”: Urban Renewal and the “Save Chinatown” Movement
4. “Be part of progress, not its sacrificial lamb”: Community-Development Strategies, 1970–2000
5. “A legacy of resistance”: Chinatown North and Twenty-First-Century Challenges
6. “We are the ones who should be telling the story”: Representing Chinatown
Epilogue: “Is, was, and will be Chinatown”
Appendix: Chinatown Populations
Notes
Index