Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.
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Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
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Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social conditions.
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Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Chinese Americans. |
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California -- San Francisco. |
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History. |
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Chinese American children -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Chinese American children. |
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Children -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Children. |
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Chinese American families -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Chinese American families. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- History.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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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 |
ISBN |
9780807898581 (electronic book) |
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0807898589 (electronic book) |
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9781469605371 (electronic book) |
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1469605376 (electronic book) |
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9780807833131 |
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0807833134 |
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9780807859735 |
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0807859737 |
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