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Lily Lee Chen —the first Chinese-American woman mayor in the U.S. — with youth in Monterey Park, California in the 1980s. Monterey Park is considered the first suburban Chinatown. In 1986, the city’s population was 40 per cent Asian. (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)

How Asian immigrants to the U.S. resisted pressures to assimilate, creating a vibrant American suburbia

Ethnoburbs — ethnic suburban enclaves — challenge assimilation and represent a form of resistance against the homogenizing pressures of American suburbia.

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