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Claiming America

1998-01-09 History
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Release : 1998-01-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Claiming America by : K. Wong

Download or read book Claiming America written by K. Wong. This book was released on 1998-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity. The first section of the book focuses on the in-coming immigrants. The second section looks at their children, who deeply felt the contradictions between Chinese and American culture, but attempted to find a balance between the two.

Claiming America

2011-02-07 Social Science
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Release : 2011-02-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 706/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Claiming America by : K. Wong

Download or read book Claiming America written by K. Wong. This book was released on 2011-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity.

Claiming Diaspora

2011-10-25 Music
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Release : 2011-10-25
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 593/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Claiming Diaspora by : Su Zheng

Download or read book Claiming Diaspora written by Su Zheng. This book was released on 2011-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals the rich and diverse musical activities among Chinese Americans and tells of the struggles of Chinese Americans to gain a foothold in the American cultural terrain. She not only tells their stories, but also examines the dynamics of the diasporic connections of this musical culture, revealing how Chinese American musical activities both reflect and contribute to local, national, and transnational cultural politics, and challenging us to take a fresh look at the increasingly plural and complex nature of American cultural identity.

Claiming the Bicycle

2016 History
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Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 445/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Claiming the Bicycle by : Sarah Hallenbeck

Download or read book Claiming the Bicycle written by Sarah Hallenbeck. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how American women encouraged one another to adopt a new technology--the bicycle--adapt it to their own purposes, and use it to transform cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference. It also considers the role of women's rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself.

At America's Gates

2004-01-21 Law
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Release : 2004-01-21
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 130/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis At America's Gates by : Erika Lee

Download or read book At America's Gates written by Erika Lee. This book was released on 2004-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

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