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Author Wong, Marie Rose, 1954-

Title Sweet cakes, long journey : the Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon / Marie Rose Wong
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2004

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 337 p.)
Series Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Nineteenth-Century American City; 2. The Chinese Presence in Oregon; 3. Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in Oregon; 4. Peopling the Chinese Community of Oregon; 5. This Place Called Chinatown; Epilogue: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Non-Claves; Appendix: Occupations of Portland's Chinese, 1860-1910; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-322) and index
Notes English
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Subject Chinese Americans -- Oregon -- Portland -- History
Chinese Americans -- Oregon -- Portland -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
SUBJECT Chinatown (Portland, Or.) -- History
Portland (Or.) -- History
Portland (Or.) -- Race relations
Subject Oregon -- Portland
Oregon -- Portland -- Chinatown
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694645
ISBN 9780295801988
0295801980