Claiming America

Author:   K. Wong ,  Sucheng Chan
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
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9781566395762


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 January 1998
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   K. Wong ,  Sucheng Chan
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.327kg
ISBN:  

9781566395762


ISBN 10:   1566395763
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 January 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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"CONTENTS Preface Part I: The Immigrant Generation 1 Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement K. Scott Wong 2 The Origins fo the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League Qingsong Zhang 3 ""Exercise Your Sacred Rights"": The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practicing Democracy Renqiu Yu Part II: The American-Born Generations 4 Fighting for Their American Rights: A History of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Sue Fawn Chung 5 Race, Ethnic Culture, and Gender in the Construction of Identities among Second-Generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s Sucheng Chan 6 ""Go West...to China"": Chinese American Identity in the 1930s Gloria H. Chun 7 The ""Oriental Problem"" in America, 1920-1960: Linking the Identities of Chinese American and Japanese American Intellectuals Henry Yu About the Contributors"

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K. Scott Wong is Associate Professor of History at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. He is coeditor of Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Sucheng Chan is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is editor or coeditor of several books including Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 (Temple), Peoples of Color in the American West, Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America (Temple), Major Problems in California History, and many others.

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