Publications

In this podcast, I talk with the American Sociological Association about my featured article in City & Community.

I used comparative historical methodologies to analyze how Chinese migrants resisted efforts to eradicate their neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Chinese residents split off new neighborhoods from dying neighborhoods while maintaining their institutions and memories, showing how neighborhood death and birth are intimately intertwined. This process is not unique to Los Angeles’ Chinatowns, but has yet to be fully explored in other empirical settings.

In highlighting the major economic sectors and their instances of worker resistance, we show the wide range of tactics, frames, and contagion among worker protest in the apparel, automobile, construction, and electronic sectors.