Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago /

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Author / Creator:Lan, Shanshan.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:xix, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics
Asian Americans.
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8627826
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ISBN:9780415890366
0415890365
9780203128077 (ebk.)
0203128079 (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Is This What You Call Racial Discrimination?
  • 1. Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown Community": The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Boundaries
  • 2. Racial Learning Between China and the United States: A Transnational Perspective
  • 3. Bridgeport: The Politics and Poetics of Space
  • 4. The Ethnic Crucible of Learning to Labor
  • 5. Chinese Immigrants Navigating Mexican Chicago
  • 6. Citizenship, Class and Coalition Building
  • 7. "I Feel Somewhat American": Race and Class Consciousness among Chinese American Youth
  • Conclusion: In Search of Dignity and Respect
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index