Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II

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Pub. Date: 2010-04-12
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II explores the role played by Chinese Americans in New York City in the 1930s 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 underrepresented 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 of Chinese Exclusion Laws. This book focuses on the active participation of the Chinese community in New York City in mainstream political, economic, and social life that helped them to forge a new identity as Chinese Americans. Their active participation in federal and local elections as a means of claiming their rights as American citizens demonstrated their growing political consciousness. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jingyi Song is associate professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at State University of New York at Old Westbury.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
New York's Chinese Community before the 1930sp. 9
The Great Depression and Economic Organizationsp. 33
The Great Depression and Cultural Organizationsp. 63
The Great Depression and Political Organizationsp. 91
War and New York's Chinese Communityp. 115
Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermathp. 145
Conclusionp. 173
Bibliographyp. 179
Indexp. 195
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