Organizing Crime in Chinatown Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910

Name: Organizing Crime in Chinatown Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910
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ISBN: 9780786416264

ISBN-10: 0786416262

ISBN-13: 9780786416264

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jeffrey Scott McIllwain

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More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive underworlds and corrupt urban politics of the Progressive Era United States. The process of organizing crime in Chinese American communities can be attributed in part to the larger politics that created opportunities for professional criminals. For example, the illegal traffic in women, laborers, and opium was an unintended consequence of "yellow peril" laws meant to provide social control over…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 2/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Race and the American Underworld



Alien Conspiracy, Yellow Peril and the "Threat" Posed by "Non-Traditional" Organized Crime



Social Networks and the Organization of Crime



Social Networks and the Institutionalizing of Guanxi



Organizing Crime on Gold Mountain



The Four Vices and the Bachelor Society



Chinese Syndicates: Prostitution and Opium



Chinese Power Syndicates: Gambling and Muscle



New York, New York



New York After Chinatown



Chinatown Vice and "The Bowery! The Bowery!"



Setting the Stage for a Tong War



The Gloves Come Off



"The Dead Dove of Peace"



Organized Crime and the American Experience



Rethinking the Gangster Image



Comments on Literature, Sources, and Methodology


Chapter Notes


Bibliography


Index