The children of Chinatown :: growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 /

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. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese...

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1. Verfasser: Rouse, Wendy L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.
ISBN:9780807898581
0807898589
9781469605371
1469605376

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