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EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A PLACE:
REGIONAL RACIAL FORMATION IN LOS ANGELES’S
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
by
Wendy Hsin Cheng
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Wendy Hsin Cheng
Object Description
| Title | Episodes in the life of a place: regional racial formation in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley |
| Author | Cheng, Wendy Hsin |
| Author email | wendyhch@usc.edu; wendy@wendycheng.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-19 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-06-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gilmore, Ruth Wilson |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Pulido, Laura Nguyen, Viet Thanh Lloyd, David |
| Abstract | "Episodes in the Life of a Place" develops a theory of regional racial formation through examining the everyday experiences of residents of four cities in the West San Gabriel Valley (SGV), an area which became known in the 1980s and 1990s as a “suburban Chinatown,” but which is in fact a multiethnic, majority-Asian American and Latina/o space. Drawing from episodic case studies, cognitive maps, and in-depth interviews with diverse Asian American and Latina/o residents, I examine how hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and class are shaped by racialized relationships to property, neighborhood-based social formations, and key institutions of civil society such as high school and the Boy Scouts of America. How have Asian American and Latinas/os’ movements into the West SGV been shaped by, and subsequently productive of, differentially racialized relationships to property? What kind of “world(s) of their own” (to paraphrase Matt Garcia) have they made collectively, in what have become largely non-White, suburban, middle-income neighborhoods? What affective and political possibilities do such spaces allow or foreclose, which are distinct from those articulated in majority-White settings? Finally, how are ideological linkages between notions of race and space formative of local civic landscapes? In my analysis, three important themes emerge: the intertwined relationship of race, property, homeownership, and privilege; the essential role of institutions of civil society in reconciling regional epistemes and practices with national ideologies; and the development of an emergent ‘non-White’ identity rooted in middle-class and suburban contexts. I find that people’s experiences and everyday landscapes in the West SGV are simultaneously saturated with dominant racial ideologies and their attendant material outcomes, and rich with alternative narratives of pasts, presents, and futures.; These contradictions and possibilities illustrate the importance of considering neighborhoods and regions as units of analysis in order to understand processes of racial formation. |
| Keyword | Asian American; Latina/o; interethnic relations; southern California; Los Angeles; suburban; San Gabriel Valley; racial formation |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | San Gabriel Valley; Alhambra; Monterey Park |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 1970/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2319 |
| Rights | Cheng, Wendy Hsin |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Cheng-2999 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Cheng-2999.pdf |
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| Full text | EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A PLACE: REGIONAL RACIAL FORMATION IN LOS ANGELES’S SAN GABRIEL VALLEY by Wendy Hsin Cheng A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Wendy Hsin Cheng |
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