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Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity
New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II
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2010
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Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese in the Years of the Depression and World War II explores the role played by Chinese Americans in New York in the 1930's who laid the foundation for future generations to fight for civil rights as American citizens. The stories of Chinese Americans during the Depression years and World War II are under-represented in the existing literature that has been confined to the early days of the settlement of Chinese Americans on the west coast of the United States. They were usually depicted as passive victims of exclusion as a result of Chinese Exclusion Laws. This book focuses on the active participation of the Chinese American in New York City in mainstream political, economic, and social life that helped them to forge new identity as Chinese Americans. Their active participation in federal and local elections as a means of claiming their rights as American citizens demonstrated their growing political consciousness. Chinese New Yorkers' support of both China and United States during the war reflected their dual identity as both Chinese and Americans. Their contributions to the war front and to the home front after Pearl Harbor eventually forced the reconsideration of the Chinese Exclusion Laws. The book concludes by relating the active participation of the Chinese in New York during the war years to the national movement for racial equality that resulted in new federal civil rights legislation.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4307-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4309-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1: New York’s Chinese Community before the 1930s No access Pages 9 - 32
Chapter 2: The Great Depression and Economic Organizations No access Pages 33 - 62
Chapter 3: The Great Depression and Cultural Organizations No access Pages 63 - 90
Chapter 4: The Great Depression and Political Organizations No access Pages 91 - 114
Chapter 5: War and New York’s Chinese Community No access Pages 115 - 144
Chapter 6: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath No access Pages 145 - 172
