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Claiming America : construc...
This collection of essays centers on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. The first section emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens. Highlighting such individuals as Yung Wing, and ardent advocate of American social and political ideals, and Wong Chin Foo, one of the first activists for Chinese citizenship and voting rights, these essays speak eloquently about the early struggles in the Americanization movement
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monografia Rebiun36539318 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36539318 m o d | cr -n--------- 970428s1998 pau ob 000 0 eng d 1-299-83366-7 1-4399-0770-6 0-585-36893-7 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng n-us--- Claiming America constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era edited by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan Philadelphia Temple University Press 1998 Philadelphia Philadelphia Temple University Press 1 online resource (233 p.) 1 online resource (233 p.) Asian American history and culture Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references Contents; Preface; Part I: The Immigrant Generation; 1. Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement / K. Scott Wong; 2. The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League / Qingsong Zhang; 3. ""Exercise Your Sacred Rights"" : The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practiciing Democracy / Renqiu Yu; Part II: The American-Born Generations; 4. Fighting for Their American Rights: A History of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance / Sue Fawn Chung 5. Race, Ethnic Culture, and Gender in the Construction of Identities among Second-Generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s / Sucheng Chan6. ""Go West...to China"" : Chinese American Identity in the 1930s / Gloria H. Chun; 7. The ""Oriental Problem"" in America, 1920-1960: Linking the Identities of Chinese American and Japanese American Intellectuals / Henry Yu; About the Contributors This collection of essays centers on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. The first section emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens. Highlighting such individuals as Yung Wing, and ardent advocate of American social and political ideals, and Wong Chin Foo, one of the first activists for Chinese citizenship and voting rights, these essays speak eloquently about the early struggles in the Americanization movement English Chan, Sucheng Wong, Kevin Scott 1-56639-576-3 1-56639-575-5 Asian American history and culture