Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City. It argues that immigrant neighbourhoods are faced not only with issues of economic and political integration, but also are engaged in a sublime and relentless effort of harmonizing the cultural rhythms of their daily life with the hegemonic temporality of mainstream society. Although much energy has been spent in explaining the segregated or ghettoized space of ethnic communities, there is, in contrast, a dearth of data on the subalternization, genealogy, and inscription of minoritized temporalities in the structural and interactional organization of the multicultural American City.

'Urban Multiculturalism and globalization in New York City should prove a key tool for any serious exploration into the concrete practises that make 'the global' a material reality in space and time.' - Steven Flusty, York University

Autorentext
MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published several books including The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society. He is currently completing a new volume entitled The Digital City: Information Technology and Globalization in Silicon Valley.

Inhalt
List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Transglobality and Diaspora Temporality Hegemonic and Subaltern Temporalities in New York The Jewish Chronopolis and "Temporal Identity" Politics The Muslim Chronopolis and Diaspora Temporality Subaltern and Hegemonic Holidays Conclusion: Chronopolis and Metropolis Notes References