The Chinatown trunk mystery : murder, miscegenation, and other dangerous encounters in turn-of-the-century New York City /

"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 l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lui, Mary Ting Li, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Chinese > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Interracial dating > New York (State) > New York > Public opinion.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Immigrants > New York (État) > New York > Opinion publique.
Meurtre > New York (État) > New York > Études de cas.
Amours interraciaux > New York (État) > New York > Opinion publique.
Chinois > New York (État) > New York > Opinion publique.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Chinese > Public opinion.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Immigrants > Public opinion.
Interracial dating > Public opinion.
Murder.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Chinezen.
Wijken.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Moorden.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
New York, NY
Chinesen.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Find Miss Sigel dead in truck"
  • "Terra incognita": mapping Chinatown's racial and gender boundaries in lower Manhattan
  • Beyond Chinatown: policing Chinese American male mobility in New York City
  • Policing urban girls' and women's mobility and desires
  • Playing the "missionary game"
  • Chinese American interracial couples and families in New York City
  • "The most remarkable get-away in police history"
  • "Disgrace on the whole body of our people."

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