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Diaspora and class consciousness [electronic resource] : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago / Shanshan Lan.

By: Lan, ShanshanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Asian AmericansPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2012. Description: xix, 198 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780203128077 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): 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 aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181, [183]-196) and index.

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.

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