Chinese Americans in the Heartland : Migration, Work, and Community /

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"The term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ling, Huping, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethnic relations.
Emigration and immigration.
Chinese Americans.
Chinese Americans > Middle West > History.
Middle West.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Relations interethniques.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Émigration et immigration.
Middle West > Ethnic relations.
Middle West > Emigration and immigration.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Defining the Asian American heartland and its significance
  • Transnational migration and businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s
  • Building "hop alley" : myth and reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s
  • Intellectual tradition of heartland : Chicago School and beyond
  • Family and marriage in heartland, 1880s-1940s
  • Living heartland : 1860s-1950s
  • Governing heartland : on Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966
  • The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the formation of cultural community in St. Louis
  • The tripartite community in Chicago
  • Conclusion: Convergences and divergences.

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