| The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 Contributor(s): Rouse, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807859737 ISBN-13: 9780807859735 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2009011633 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.01 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - Northern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jorae, Wendy Rouse: - Wendy Rouse Jorae teaches history at St. Francis College Preparatory School in Sacramento, at the University of California, Davis, and at California State University-Sacramento. |