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Diaspora and Class Consciousness : Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago.

This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines ""Chinese immigrant workers"" as Chinese immigrants wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lan, Shanshan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Asian Americans.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : is this what you call racial discrimination?
  • Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries
  • Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective
  • Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space
  • The ethnic crucible of learning to labor
  • Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago
  • Citizenship, class and coalition building
  • "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth
  • Conclusion : in search of dignity and respect.