Bianca Mabute-Louie 雷天芯
@beyonkz
Scholar-Activist. Sociology PhD student @ricesociology. Asian American Studies MA. Writing UNASSIMILABLE w/ @harperbooks ✍🏼
12-04-2013 19:01:45
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I need everyone reporting on the devastating #lunarnewyear shooting to know a few things about #montereypark (thread)
#MontereyPark is home for my diasporic family. It is where you find the best damn Chinese food in the U.S. It is the 1st Asian ethnoburb: an ethnic enclave in the 'burbs that thrives b/c it refuses to assimilate, instead unapologetically catering to its own immigrant community.
#MontereyPark as an ethnoburb troubles the American imagination of an immigrant, assimilation, and integration. Ethnoburbs are not a “staging ground” (Zhou 2008) for somewhere better or whiter. The ethnoburb is the final desired destination where our communities thrive.