Tune in for our conversation with Laureen Hom, author of The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles, published in 2024 by University of California Press. In The Power of Chinatown, Hom draws on ethnographic fieldwork to explore how and under what conditions residents and business owners in LA’s Chinatown challenge and mobilize dynamics of gentrification and community change.

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The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles, by Laureen Hom. University of California Press, 2024.

Guest

Laureen Hom, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, San José State University

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