Negotiating protection : illegal immigration and party machines -- Arguing cases : legal interpreters, law, and society -- Popularizing politics : the anti-segregation movement as social revolution -- Fixing knowledge : Pacific Coast Chinese leaders' management of the Chicago School of Sociology -- Transforming democracy : brokerage politics and the exclusion era's denouement -- Conclusions
Summary
This title traces several generations of Chinese 'brokers, ' ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, this book alters common understandings of how legally 'alien' groups' helped create modern immigrant nations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-215) and index