The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California

by Wendy Cheng and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

U.S. suburbs are typically imagined to be predominantly white communities, but this is increasingly untrue in many parts of the country. Examining a multiracial suburb that is decidedly nonwhite, Wendy Cheng unpacks questions of how identity--especially racial identity--is shaped by place. She offers an in-depth portrait, enriched by nearly seventy interviews, of the San Gabriel Valley, not far from downtown Los Angeles, where approximately 60...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816679827
• ISBN13: 9780816679829
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"