This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent 20th century.
This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent 20th century.
Lisa Rose Mar is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
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* Introduction * 1.: Negotiating Protection: Illegal Immigration and Party Machines * 2.: Arguing Cases: Legal Interpreters, Law, and Society * 3.: Popularizing Politics: the Anti-Segregation Movement as Social Revolution * 4.: Fixing Knowledge: Pacific Coast Chinese Leaders' Management of the Chicago School of Sociology * 5.: Transforming Democracy: Brokerage Politics and the Exclusion Era's Denouement * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography
* Introduction * 1.: Negotiating Protection: Illegal Immigration and Party Machines * 2.: Arguing Cases: Legal Interpreters, Law, and Society * 3.: Popularizing Politics: the Anti-Segregation Movement as Social Revolution * 4.: Fixing Knowledge: Pacific Coast Chinese Leaders' Management of the Chicago School of Sociology * 5.: Transforming Democracy: Brokerage Politics and the Exclusion Era's Denouement * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography
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