Chinese America The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

Name: Chinese America The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community
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ISBN: 9781595581198

ISBN-10: 1595581197

ISBN-13: 9781595581198

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Authors: Peter Kwong, Dusanka Miscevic

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A magisterial history of the Chinese experience in America, hailed by Howard Zinn as "a wonderful book" that "fills an enormous gap in our history." Described by the Washington Post Book World upon its initial release as "shocking, depressing but ultimately uplifting," Chinese America is award-winning author Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic's definitive portrait of one of the oldest immigrant groups and fastest-growing communities in the United States. Drawing on years of original research and firsthand reporting across the United States and Asia, it charts 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the high-tech transnationals of today's booming…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 518
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.85" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.562



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Chinese Encounter 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



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



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



From Civil Rights to Identity Politics (1965-1980s)



The Rise of Asian America



Struggle for Identity



Radicals and Reformers



Culture Wars



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



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


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index