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Author | : Wei Li |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824830652 |
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Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs—suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas—are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes. Traditional ethnic and immigrant settlements customarily take the form of either ghettos or enclaves. Thus the majority of scholarly publications and mass media covering the San Gabriel Valley has described it as a Chinatown located in Los Angeles’ suburbs. Li offers a completely different approach to understanding and analyzing this fascinating place. By conducting interviews with residents, a comparative spatial examination of census data and other statistical sources, and fieldwork—coupled with her own holistic view of the area—Li gives readers an effective and fine-tuned socio-spatial analysis of the evolution of a new type of racially defined place. The San Gabriel Valley tells a unique story, but its evolution also speaks to those experiencing a similar type of ethnic and racial conurbation. In sum, Li sheds light on processes that are shaping other present (and future) ethnically and racially diverse communities. The concept of the ethnoburb has redefined the way geographers and other scholars think about ethnic space, place, and process. This book will contribute significantly to both theoretical and empirical studies of immigration by presenting a more intensive and thorough "take" on arguments about spatial and social processes in urban and suburban America.
Author | : Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1448808294 |
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Nicknamed the "Aloha State," Hawaii is a great deal more than surfers and sunny beaches. This book covers all the basics that students need to know about the fiftieth state, which is the only state comprised of volcanic islands. A timeline of important events and a listing of key facts about the state are also included.
Author | : Jeanette Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309256631 |
Download Building Hawaii's Innovation Economy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow companies as well as attract the talent and resources necessary to develop innovation clusters. These state and regionally based initiatives have a broad range of goals and increasingly include significant resources, often with a sectoral focus and often in partnership with foundations and universities. These are being joined by recent initiatives to coordinate and concentrate investments from a variety of federal agencies that provide significant resources to develop regional centers of innovation, business incubators, and other strategies to encourage entrepreneurship and high-tech development. Building Hawaii's Innovation Economy: Summary of a Symposium explains the study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with regard to their goals, structures, instruments, modes of operation, synergies across private and public programs, funding mechanisms and levels, and evaluation efforts. This report reviews selected state and regional efforts to capitalize on federal and state investments in areas of critical national needs. Building Hawaii's Innovation Economy also reviews efforts to strengthen existing industries as well as specific new technology focus areas such as nanotechnology, stem cells, and energy in order to better understand program goals, challenges, and accomplishments.
Author | : Ann S. Bayer |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-03-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0824832736 |
Download Going Against the Grain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to "go against the grain." It’s about Hawai‘i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that "public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding." University of Hawai‘i education professor Ann Bayer interviewed fifty-one parents, including five who chose private schools. Physicians, professors, attorneys, military officers, teachers, legislators, business executives and entrepreneurs, bankers, and administrators of both genders and from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds were among those interviewed. Bayer begins by asking parents why they chose to send their children to public schools. She also asks them to describe the reaction of families, friends, and colleagues to their decision and their children’s school experiences—both positive and negative. From these conversations the concept of what constitutes a "good public school" emerges as well as the opportunities provided by such schools. Several parents remark that their children have gone on to attend the same colleges and universities as private school graduates. Other chapters examine more closely the prevalent belief in the superiority of Hawai‘i’s private schools and its impact on students, parents, and teachers. Bayer argues that it is important to understand this belief system and how both newcomers and longtime residents are exposed to it given its influence on parental decisions about schooling. Finally, she returns to interviews with parents for suggestions on how to improve public education in Hawai‘i and to address the question "Why should we care about the public school system?" Responses spark frank discussions on the broader implications for the civic and economic health of a community fragmented by two-tiered schooling. Candid and insightful, Going Against the Grain provides a much-needed look at education in Hawai‘i. It will be essential reading for parents, teachers, administrators, legislators, policy makers, and others interested in promoting and supporting public education and understanding its role in a democracy.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
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Download Climatological Data, Hawaii Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Hamilton |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680774174 |
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Welcome to Hawaii, the Aloha State! Your students will go surfing at Waikiki Beach, explore Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, hula dance at a luau, explore the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, and more as they learn about Hawaii's history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more in this fun, fact-filled title. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing.
Author | : Tom Coffman |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082237398X |
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In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili‘uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen's visits to Washington, D.C., to lobby for independence, and her imprisonment, along with hundreds of others, after their aborted armed insurrection. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai‘i's sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States' growing empire.
Author | : Thomas W. Maretzki |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824860268 |
Download People and Cultures of Hawaii Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a significant update to the highly influential text People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile. Since its publication in 1980, the immigrant groups it discusses in depth have matured and new ones have been added to the mix. The present work tracks the course of these changes over the past twenty years, constructing a historical understanding of each group as it evolved from race to ethnicity to culture. Individual chapters begin with an overview of one of fifteen groups. Following the development of its unique ethnocultural identity, distinctive character traits such as temperament and emotional expression are explored—as well as ethnic stereotypes. Also discussed are modifications to the group’s ethnocultural identity over time and generational change—which traits may have changed over generations and which are more hardwired or enduring. An important feature of each chapter is the focus on the group’s family social structure, generational and gender roles, power distribution, and central values and life goals. Readers will also find a description of the group’s own internal social class structure, social and political strategies, and occupational and educational patterns. Finally, contributors consider how a particular ethnic group has blended into Hawai‘i’s culturally sensitive society. People and Cultures of Hawai‘i: The Evolution of Culture and Ethnicity will, like its predecessor, fill an important niche in understanding the history of different ethnic groups in Hawai‘i.
Author | : Jacqueline Laks Gorman |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2012-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1608706567 |
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The titles in this popular series includes a variety of features that will help students learn about the state of the Aloha State. All books in the It's My State! � series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.