Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lan, Shanshan
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:	Asian Americans.
Subjects:	Chinese Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Chinese Americans > Cultural assimilation > Illinois > Chicago. Chinese Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Ethnic identity. Class consciousness > Illinois > Chicago. Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.