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Claiming America : constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era

Author: Kevin Scott Wong; Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.
Series: Asian American history and culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kevin Scott Wong; Sucheng Chan
ISBN: 1566395755 9781566395755 1566395763 9781566395762
OCLC Number: 36865427
Description: xi, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Cultural defenders and brokers : Chinese responses to the anti-Chinese movement / K. Scott Wong --
The origins of the Chinese Americanization movement : Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League / Qingsong Zhang --
"Exercise your sacred rights" : the experience of New York's Chinese laundrymen in practicing democracy / Renqiu Yu --
Fighting for their American rights : a history of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance / Sue Fawn Chung --
Race, ethnic culture, and gender in the construction of identities among second-generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s / Sucheng Chan --
"Go west ... to China" : Chinese American identity in the 1930s / Gloria H. Chun --
The "Oriental problem" in America, 1920-1960 : linking the identities of Chinese American and Japanese American intellectuals / Henry Yu.
Series Title: Asian American history and culture.
Responsibility: edited by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan.

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