Chinese America : the untold story of America's oldest new community / Peter Kwong and Dušanka Miščević.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kwong, Peter
Other Authors: Miščevič, Dušanka Dušana
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2005.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > History.
Chinese Americans > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xvii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Chinese encounter in America (1840-1882)
  • The transnational ghetto: life during the exclusion era (1882-1945)
  • The Cold War shapes Chinese America (1946-1965)
  • From civil rights to identity politics (1965-1980s)
  • Contemporary Chinese America
  • Suburban and symbolic politics.