Chinese America
Subtitle: the untold story of America's oldest new community
By: Peter Kwong and Dušanka Miščević
Contributors: Miščevič, Dušanka Dušana
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Social conditions; Chinese Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-494) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The Chinese encounter in America (1840-1882). Pioneers; title: The world they left behind; title: The China trade and the trade in Chinese labor; title: Race; title: Labor; title: The world of Chinese immigrants; title: The anti-Chinese movement; title: pt. II. The transnational ghetto : life during the exclusion era (1882-1945). White dominance at home and abroad; title: Anglo-conformity; title: The Chinese build their community; title: In search of respect; title: American-born aliens; title: Inroads to American politics; title: pt. III. The Cold War shapes Chinese America (1946-1965). A window of opportunity; title: Cold War and the Chinese American community; title: Chinese professionals wanted!; title: American-born achievers; title: pt. IV. From civil rights to identity politics (1965-1980s). The rise of Asian America; title: Struggle for identity; title: Radicals and reformers; title: Culture wars; title: pt. V. Contemporary Chinese America. The rise and fall of Chinatowns; title: Into the suburbs; title: Chinese American transnationals; title: Ethnoburbs; title: A culture of growing self-confidence; title: The limits of the civil rights agenda; title: pt. VI. Suburban and symbolic politics. The middle class enters the fray; title: The money trail; title: The China/Chinese American tangle; title: Postscript : Chinese America in the twenty-first century.