The Chinatown Trunk Mystery : Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City /

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In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover,...

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Autor principal: Lui, Mary Ting Yi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Chinese > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Interracial dating > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Public opinion > New York (State) > New York.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Asian American studies.
Bertillon system.
Bowery.
Calvary Baptist Church.
Committee of Fourteen.
Five Points House of industry.
Harding, Nelson.
Huie Kin.
Irish Americans.
Maine, Guy.
New York City.
Pascoe, Peggy.
Port Arthur restaurant.
Quan Yick Nam.
Raines Law.
Salvation Army.
Sigel family.
Tenderloin.
Times Square.
anti-miscegenation laws.
dance halls.
geography.
interracial marriage.
reform institutions.
slumming.
transnational households.
white slavery.
yellowface.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION "Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk55
  • CHAPTER ONE "Terra Incognita": Mapping Chinatown's Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan
  • CHAPTER TWO Beyond Chinatown: Policing Chinese American Male Mobility in New York City
  • CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls5 and Women's Mobility and Desires
  • CHAPTER FOUR Playing the "Missionary Game"
  • CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City
  • CHAPTER SIX "The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History"
  • CHAPTER SEVEN "Disgrace on the Whole Body of Our People"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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