Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: New York's Chinese Community before the 1930s; Chapter 2: The Great Depression and Economic Organizations; Chapter 3: The Great Depression and Cultural Organizations; Chapter 4: The Great Depression and Political Organizations; Chapter 5: War and New York's Chinese Community; Chapter 6: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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