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Author Lan, Shanshan.

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

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Description xix, 198 p. : ill., maps.
Series Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics
Asian Americans.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181, [183]-196) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415890366 (hbk)
9780203128077 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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