Lucky Ones (eBook)

One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition

Mae M. Ngai (Autor)

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2012 | Expanded paperback Edition
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4503-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.

Autor

Mae Ngai is professor of history and the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 45 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: acquittal • Admission (law) • alley • American middle class • americans • Board of education • bribery • brothel • Burlingame Treaty • California • China • Chinatown, San Francisco • China–United States relations • Chinese Americans • Chinese emigration • Chinese Exclusion Act • Chinese name • Chinese People • Chinese School • Chinese Village (Tsarskoe Selo) • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Civilization • Consideration • Deportation • Discretion • Donaldina Cameron • Emigration • Employment • Equal Protection Clause • European Americans • Exclusion • Extortion • Federal government of the United States • felony • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fraud • Gertrude (code name) • Guangdong • Guangzhou • Household • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration Law • income • japanese americans • Jurisdiction • Kaiping • laborer • laundry • lawyer • Manifest Destiny • Mission Church (Michigan) • Mission school • month • Nationality • Naturalization • Necessity • newspaper • No Chinese • Overseas Chinese • Pacific Mail Steamship Company • petitioner • photography • Physician • Politics • Porcelain • Prostitution • Racial segregation • Racism • residence • Restaurant • salary • Sampan • Sanyi • Scott Act (1888) • Sinophobia • Siyi • Siyi (Four Barbarians) • Smuggling • Social Status • Statute • steamship • St. Louis • Suffrage • supreme court of the united states • Surname • Tape v. Hurley • Tax • touring car • Treaty • United States • Van Ness Avenue • Vegetable • Wealth • white people • Wong Chin Foo • World War II • year • Yick Wo v. Hopkins
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4503-3 / 1400845033
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4503-3 / 9781400845033