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Author Rouse, Wendy L., author.

Title The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / Wendy Rouse Jorae.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.
Contents Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality -- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question -- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history -- For the family back home : Chinese children at work -- Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school -- Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts -- Children of the new Chinatown -- Conclusion: Constructing the future.
Summary Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
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Subject Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social conditions.
Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Chinese Americans.
California -- San Francisco.
History.
Chinese American children -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Chinese American children.
Children -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Children.
Chinese American families -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Chinese American families.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Children.
Other Form: Print version: Jorae, Wendy Rouse. Children of Chinatown. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807833131 (DLC) 2009011633 (OCoLC)317361735
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