Summary Of Consolidated Ethnic Enclaves

In the Scholarly Article Consolidated Ethnic Enclaves by Brian J. Godfrey, it explains how the urban cultural landscape reflects how an ethnic group becomes the dominant force in an area in many was such as the demographic, political and economic terms. Examples of the change of an urban cultural landscape includes businesses catering to the dominant ethnic group, services/activities such as religious ceremonies being done in the ethnic groups native language, and public spaces/landmarks being named or done in honor of something important to the dominant group. The article explains how an urban ethnic landscape becomes a source of unity and ethnic identity by creating their own ethnic enclave.
Table 3.1 provides population data such as total

Chinese immigrants competed with white European immigrants with jobs and this created a resentment against Chinese immigrants. This resentment led to laws passed against the Chinese such as the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and other laws that limited the Chinese population to mostly males. These laws also led to the Chinese being segregated to a downtown district in near Dupont Street and later Grant Avenue. Along with the Chinese speaking little English, restricted to housing, and fearful of attacks by outsiders, the Chinese consolidated their ethnic enclave that they were forced to take. They consolidated their neighborhood because ethnic association based on characteristics started forming to help organize life Chinatowns, businesses arose to give services to the residents needs and the most important organizations and figures joined in political organizations such as the Six Companies to make their area a better place to live and to protect themselves from attacks. Chinatown was such a success that even after the big San Francisco Earthquake in 1906, Chinatown stayed and started rebuilding it despite multiple protests due to the business revenue that the district area created. The rebuilding of Chinatown left many cultural imprints such as the architecture being faux-Chinese-orientated and led to Chinatown being more of a tourist attraction. During the 1940’s and 60’s, laws were enacted that allowed the Chinese to move to move outside of Chinatown and end the “bachelor society” due to the War Brides Act. These laws led to an increase of population which in turn led to many Chinese businesses being opened and many ethnoburbs being formed due to the Chinese now being able to live outside of Chinatown. Now Chinatown became a service orientated district and