TY - BOOK ID - 101252610 TI - Forever struggle PY - 2020 SN - 1613767919 1625345453 9781613767917 9781625345455 9781625345462 1625345461 PB - Amherst DB - UniCat KW - Chinese Americans KW - Immigrants KW - Community organization KW - Community activists KW - Political activity KW - History. KW - Social conditions. KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - Chinatown (Boston, Massachusetts) KW - Chinese KW - Ethnology KW - Political activists KW - CBOs (Community organization) KW - Community-based organizations KW - Community councils KW - Community life KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101252610 AB - "Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more prominent voice over their community's fate. In writing about Boston Chinatown's long history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the community, charts its journey and efforts for survival--from its emergence during a time of immigration and deep xenophobia to the highway construction and urban renewal projects that threatened the neighborhood after World War II to its more recent efforts to keep commercial developers at bay. At the ground level, Liu depicts its people, organizations, internal battles, and varied and complex strategies against land-taking by outside institutions and public authorities. The documented courage, resilience, and ingenuity of this low-income immigrant neighborhood of color have earned it a place amongst our urban narratives. Chinatown has much to teach us about neighborhood agency, the power of organizing, and the prospects of such neighborhoods in rapidly growing and changing cities"-- ER -