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Laureen D. Hom is an associate professor of urban and regional planning at San José State University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is at the intersection of urban studies, ethnic studies, public policy, and public administration.
""The Power of Chinatown lucidly examines why historic urban Chinatowns still matter: Place-based racial politics are continuously reshaping the physical neighborhood environments, amid gentrification and forced displacement. Hom effectively argues that Chinatowns simultaneously persist and change; they are static sites with radical potential for equitable development, if the myriad Chinese and Asian American stakeholders across generations, socioeconomic status and immigration cohorts commit to a vision of spatial justice that foregrounds histories of resistance and collective power."" * Los Angeles Times * ""Amid the constant pressures of demographic change, urban renewal, and gentrification, who speaks for Chinatown? Laureen D. Hom’s engaging and well-written The Power of Chinatown grapples with the multiple dimensions of this question. Hom’s study is an important corrective to the tendency to view Chinatowns as ethnic enclaves that are bound to disappear as a consequence of the assimilation and integration of Chinese Americans.” * Chinese Studies International *
