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Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago / Shanshan Lan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lan, Shanshan, author.
- Series:
- Asian Americans.
- Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation--Illinois--Chicago.
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity--Illinois--Chicago.
- Class consciousness--Illinois--Chicago.
- Class consciousness.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines ""Chinese immigrant workers"" as Chinese immigrants with limited English language skills who work primarily at low-skill, blue-collar service jobs at the extreme margins of U.S. economy. The book moves away from the enclave paradigm by situating the Chinese immigrant experience within the larger context of transnational labor migration and the multiracial transformatio
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181, [183]-196) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-46656-8
- 0-203-12807-9
- 1-283-89375-4
- 1-136-46657-6
- 9780203128077
- OCLC:
- 823389692
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