Landscapes of the ethnic economy / edited by David H. Kaplan and Wei Li.

Other author Kaplan, David H., 1960-
Other author Li, Wei, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Ethnic neighborhoods--Case studies.
Ethnic neighborhoods--Economic aspects. --Case studies.
Minority business enterprises--Case studies.
Urban geography--Case studies.

Contents How geography shapes the ethnic economy -- Scaling central place of an ethnic-Vietnamese commercial enclave in New Orleans, Louisiana / Christopher Airriess -- Geographic boundaries of the Cuban enclave economy in Miami / Heike Alberts -- Residential segregation and ethnic economies in a multicultural city: the Little Portugal of Toronto / Carlos Texeira -- Race, space, crime, and the African American entrepreneur: business owner attitudes, business success, and the neighborhood context / David H. Kaplan and Bessie House-Soremekun -- Changing geography of Toronto's Chinese ethnic economy / Lucia Lo -- Gendered landscapes of ethnic economies: Turkish entrepreneurs in Berlin / Felicitas Hillmann -- How the ethnic economy shapes the urban landscape -- How ethnic banks matter: banking and community/economic development in Los Angeles / Wei Li ... [et al.] -- Ethnic diversity and the ethnic economy in cosmopolitan Sydney / Jock Collins -- Latino business landscapes and the Hispanic ethnic economy / Alex Oberle -- The new Romans: ethnic economic activities in Rome / Pierpaolo Mudu -- Spatial and identity transformations of the Japanese American ethnic economy in globalizing Los Angeles -- James M. Smith -- The evolution of Manchester's Curry Mile: from suburban shopping street to ethnic destination / Giles A. Barrett and David McEvoy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006010648
ISBN0742529479 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742529487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742529472
ISBN9780742529489