Diaspora and class consciousness [electronic resource] : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago / Shanshan Lan.

By: Lan, ShanshanContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian AmericansPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xix, 198 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780203128077 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Chinese Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions | Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Illinois -- Chicago | Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Illinois -- Chicago | Class consciousness -- Illinois -- Chicago | Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.89510773/11 LOC classification: F548.9.C5 | L36 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : is this what you call racial discrimination? -- Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries -- Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective -- Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space -- The ethnic crucible of learning to labor -- Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago -- Citizenship, class and coalition building -- "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth -- Conclusion : in search of dignity and respect.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181, [183]-196) and index.

Introduction : is this what you call racial discrimination? -- Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries -- Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective -- Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space -- The ethnic crucible of learning to labor -- Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago -- Citizenship, class and coalition building -- "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth -- Conclusion : in search of dignity and respect.

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