Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago - Lan, Shanshan (New York : Routledge, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-181, [183]-196) and index.
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Keywords: Chinese Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Illinois -- Chicago; Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Illinois -- Chicago; Class consciousness -- Illinois -- Chicago; Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Electronic books