Diaspora and Class Consciousness : Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

ISBN-13: 9780415890366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 198 str.

Shanshan Lan

Opis

This project adopts an interracial framework in studying the convergence and divergence of minority experiences in a highly racialized urban setting, treating the Chinese immigrant experience as a pivot through which to examine the complex process of the multiracial transformation of white majority neighborhoods. But it also goes beyond the hegemonic black/white binary in studying race relations in the United States, exploring the interconnectedness among different minority experiences and aiming to bridge the gap between a U.S.-centered view of race and a transnational perspective generated by recent scholarship on migration and transnationalism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Is This What You Call Racial Discrimination?  1. Imagining Chicago’s "Chinatown Community": The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Boundaries  2. Racial Learning Between China and the United States: A Transnational Perspective  3. Bridgeport: The Politics and Poetics of Space  4. The Ethnic Crucible of Learning to Labor  5. Chinese Immigrants Navigating Mexican Chicago  6. Citizenship, Class and Coalition Building  7. "I Feel Somewhat American.": Race and Class Consciousness among Chinese American Youth.  Conclusion: In Search of Dignity and Respect

O autorze

Shanshan Lan is a research assistant professor in the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.