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Author Rouse, Wendy L., author

Title The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / Wendy Rouse Jorae
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality -- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question -- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history -- For the family back home : Chinese children at work -- Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school -- Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts -- Children of the new Chinatown -- Conclusion: Constructing the future
Summary Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Chinese American children -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Children -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Chinese American families -- California -- San Francisco -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Children
Chinese American children
Chinese American families
Chinese Americans
Ethnic relations
Manners and customs
Social conditions
SUBJECT Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social conditions
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
Subject California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807898581
0807898589
9781469605371
1469605376