Diaspora and class consciousness
Subtitle: Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago
By: by Shanshan Lan
Series: Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415890366; 9780203128077
Subjects: Class consciousness; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic identity; Social conditions; Social aspects; Chinese Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : is this what you call racial discrimination?; title: Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries; title: Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective; title: Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space; title: The ethnic crucible of learning to labor; title: Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago; title: Citizenship, class and coalition building; title: "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth; title: Conclusion : in search of dignity and respect.