Title: Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago /
Authors: Lan, Shanshan.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chinese Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions.; Chinese Americans Cultural assimilation Illinois Chicago.; Chinese Americans Ethnic identity illinois Chicago.; Class consciousness Illinois Chicago.; Chinese Americans Illinois Chicago Ethnic identity.; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Contents: Introduction : is this what you call racial discrimination? -- Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries -- Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective -- Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space -- The ethnic crucible of learning to labor -- Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago -- Citizenship, class and coalition building -- "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth -- Conclusion : in search of dignity and respect.