Nancy E. Riley

Chinatown, Honolulu

Place, Race, and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai'i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231196796
• ISBN-10: 0231196792
• Artikelnr.: 70141344

Autorenporträt

Nancy E. Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Terminology
Introduction: Race and Place in the Empire
1. Setting the Stage: Chinese Experience Before 1900
2. 1900 to 1930: Destruction of Chinatown and the (Re)building of a Chinese
American Community
3. World War II Comes to Hawai'i: 1930s through 1945
4. Statehood Amid Cold War Politics
5. Reconstructing Chinatown for a New Era
6. Chinatown Today: Confluence of Past and Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index