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Book The Economic and Social Adjustment of the San Francisco Chinese for the Past Fifty Years

Download or read book The Economic and Social Adjustment of the San Francisco Chinese for the Past Fifty Years written by Richard Kock Dare and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpublished typescript by a second-generation Chinese American author, on economic and social changes and conditions of San Francisco's Chinatown residents, from the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire to the years following World War II. Based on author's interviews, conversations with community members, and personal experience. Includes a page of notes on publication specifications and schedule.

Book A Different Mirror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Takaki
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 1456611062
  • Pages : 787 pages

Download or read book A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

Book Remaking Chinese America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xiaojian Zhao
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780813530116
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Remaking Chinese America written by Xiaojian Zhao and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Remaking Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao explores the myriad forces that changed and unified Chinese Americans during a key period in American history. Prior to 1940, this immigrant community was predominantly male, but between 1940 and 1965 it was transformed into a family-centered American ethnic community. Zhao pays special attention to forces both inside and outside of the country in order to explain these changing demographics. She scrutinizes the repealed exclusion laws and the immigration laws enacted after 1940. Careful attention is also paid to evolving gender roles, since women constituted the majority of newcomers, significantly changing the sex ratio of the Chinese American population. As members of a minority sharing a common cultural heritage as well as pressures from the larger society, Chinese Americans networked and struggled to gain equal rights during the cold war period. In defining the political circumstances that brought the Chinese together as a cohesive political body, Zhao also delves into the complexities they faced when questioning their personal national allegiances. Remaking Chinese America uses a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, newspapers, genealogical documents, and immigration files to illuminate what it was like to be Chinese living in the United States during a period that--until now--has been little studied.

Book Unbound Feet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judy Yung
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520915356
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Unbound Feet written by Judy Yung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, she shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of World War II. The setting for this captivating history is San Francisco, which had the largest Chinese population in the United States. Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, uses an impressive range of sources to tell her story. Oral history interviews, previously unknown autobiographies, both English- and Chinese-language newspapers, government census records, and exceptional photographs from public archives and private collections combine to make this a richly human document as well as an illuminating treatise on race, gender, and class dynamics. While presenting larger social trends Yung highlights the many individual experiences of Chinese American women, and her skill as an oral history interviewer gives this work an immediacy that is poignant and effective. Her analysis of intraethnic class rifts—a major gap in ethnic history—sheds important light on the difficulties that Chinese American women faced in their own communities. Yung provides a more accurate view of their lives than has existed before, revealing the many ways that these women—rather than being passive victims of oppression—were active agents in the making of their own history.

Book Ethnic Enterprise in America

Download or read book Ethnic Enterprise in America written by Ivan Light and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Book Chinese America  History and Perspectives 1987

Download or read book Chinese America History and Perspectives 1987 written by and published by Chinese Historical Society. This book was released on with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Register of the University of California

Download or read book Register of the University of California written by University of California (1868-1952) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinese Family in San Francisco

Download or read book The Chinese Family in San Francisco written by Gail Abma and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commencement

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of California, Berkeley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Commencement written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socioeconomic Change Among Japanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area

Download or read book Socioeconomic Change Among Japanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Alexander Yamato and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Women s Lives

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  • Author : Sandra Schackel
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780826322456
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Western Women s Lives written by Sandra Schackel and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays about 20th-century women living in the western U.S., showing that the image of the pioneer woman has been replaced not with another dominant one, but with many.

Book Conflict and Compromise

Download or read book Conflict and Compromise written by Melford Stephen Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Historical Society Quarterly

Download or read book California Historical Society Quarterly written by California Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preliminary Checklist of M A  Theses and Dissertations Related to Asian American Studies in the UCLA Library

Download or read book Preliminary Checklist of M A Theses and Dissertations Related to Asian American Studies in the UCLA Library written by University of California, Los Angeles. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: