The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium
This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Chinese-Americans have been courted as 'model workers' by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors offer engrossing accounts of the lives of immigrants, their tenacity, their diverse lifeways, from the arrival of the first Chinese gold miners in 1849 into the present day. The 21st century begins as a uniquely 'Pacific Century' in the Americas, with an increasingly large presence of Asians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The book will be a v…
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Weitere Autoren: Valentine, David (Solist) / Cassel, Susie Lan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7591-0001-5
- EAN: 9780759100015
- Produktnummer: 1570985
- Verlag: Altamira Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.4 cm 612 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 10
- Gewicht: 612
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