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The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans)
Susie Lan Cassel
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Description for The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans)
Paperback. Demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the experience of Chinese immigration in America. This book is a useful resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history. Editor(s): Cassel, Susie Lan. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 480 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617.
This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume editor Cassel relates how the well-publicized accusations of espionage against scientist Wen Ho Lee at the nuclear facility at Los Alamos can be understood as part of an ongoing systemic and institutionalized racism in American society. Chinese-Americans have been courted as "model workers" by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors offer engrossing accounts of the lives of immigrants, their tenacity, their diverse lifeways, from the arrival of the first Chinese gold ... Read more
This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume editor Cassel relates how the well-publicized accusations of espionage against scientist Wen Ho Lee at the nuclear facility at Los Alamos can be understood as part of an ongoing systemic and institutionalized racism in American society. Chinese-Americans have been courted as "model workers" by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors offer engrossing accounts of the lives of immigrants, their tenacity, their diverse lifeways, from the arrival of the first Chinese gold ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759100015
SKU
V9780759100015
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About Susie Lan Cassel
Susie Lan Cassel teaches Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos, specializing in Asian American and Multicultural American literature.
Reviews for The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans)
This volume reflects the diverse mix of approaches and concerns of the many individuals that work with and research Chinese Americans: educators, archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, museum curators, sociologists, and literary scholars. . . . Offer[s] something for everyone interested in Chinese American studies. . . . This volume can provide a useful snapshot of the current state of Chinese American ... Read more