2024-12-22T04:21:56-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/121673624/archinect-s-lexicon-ethnoburb Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-02-27T14:01:00-05:00 >2015-03-05T22:33:49-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wk/wkal1rzw1f9tzl57.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><strong>ethnoburbs</strong>&nbsp;(noun):&nbsp;"suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large American metropolitan areas. They are multi-ethnic communities, in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration, but does not necessarily comprise a majority."</p><p>Dr. Wei Li, currently a professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at <a href="http://archinect.com/schools/cover/2905511/arizona-state-university" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ASU</a>, coined the term while a PhD student at <a href="http://archinect.com/uscarchitecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USC</a> in the 1990s. The above definition is quoted from the abstract of "<a href="http://usj.sagepub.com/content/35/3/479.short" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anatomy of a New Ethnic Settlement: The Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles</a>",&nbsp;Li's 1998 paper where the term was first published,&nbsp;when Li was an&nbsp;assistant professor of geography and Asian American studies at the <a href="http://archinect.com/schools/cover/20338981/university-of-connecticut" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Connecticut</a>.</p><p></p><p><em>(Google's ngram charting published instances of "ethnoburb".)</em></p><p>The word grew out of Li's research on Los Angeles, where high concentrations of non-white ethnicities were settling in suburban areas, such as the San Gabriel Valley, during the 1980s and 1990s. The term has since been applied to demograph...</p>