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the untold story of America's oldest new community

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New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
518

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Subjects
Social conditions, Chinese Americans, History, Chinese, united states

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Chinese America: the untold story of America's oldest new community
2005, New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton
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Table of Contents

pt. I. The Chinese encounter in America (1840-1882). Pioneers
The world they left behind
The China trade and the trade in Chinese labor
Race
Labor
The world of Chinese immigrants
The anti-Chinese movement
pt. II. The transnational ghetto : life during the exclusion era (1882-1945). White dominance at home and abroad
Anglo-conformity
The Chinese build their community
In search of respect
American-born aliens
Inroads to American politics
pt. III. The Cold War shapes Chinese America (1946-1965). A window of opportunity
Cold War and the Chinese American community
Chinese professionals wanted!
American-born achievers
pt. IV. From civil rights to identity politics (1965-1980s). The rise of Asian America
Struggle for identity
Radicals and reformers
Culture wars
pt. V. Contemporary Chinese America. The rise and fall of Chinatowns
Into the suburbs
Chinese American transnationals
Ethnoburbs
A culture of growing self-confidence
The limits of the civil rights agenda
pt. VI. Suburban and symbolic politics. The middle class enters the fray
The money trail
The China/Chinese American tangle
Postscript : Chinese America in the twenty-first century.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-494) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.895/1073/09
Library of Congress
E184.C5 K88 2005, E184.C5K88 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 518 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
518

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Open Library
OL24878015M
Internet Archive
chineseamericaun00pete
ISBN 10
1565849620
LCCN
2005049550
OCLC/WorldCat
60420916

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