ISBN:
9780807859735
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Children of Chinatown
DDC:
305.23089/951079461
Keywords:
Chinese American families - California - San Francisco - History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferio
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Constructing Childhood in Early Chinatown: Image versus Reality; CHAPTER 1: The Immigration of Chinese Children and the Chinese Question; CHAPTER 2: Recentering the Chinese Family in Early Chinese American History; CHAPTER 3: For the Family Back Home: Chinese Children at Work; CHAPTER 4: Challenging Segregation: Chinese Children at School; CHAPTER 5: Articles of Contention: Chinese Children in the Missions and Courts; CHAPTER 6: Children of the New Chinatown; CONCLUSION: Constructing the Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
