Chinese America : the untold story of America's oldest new community / Peter Kwong and Dušanka Miščević.

Author: Kwong, Peter.

Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2005.

ISBN: 1565849620

Description: xvii, 518 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Chinese Americans History.
Chinese Americans Social conditions.

Contents: pt. I. The Chinese encounter in America (1840-1882). Pioneers -- The world they left behind -- The China trade and the trade in Chinese labor -- Race -- Labor -- The world of Chinese immigrants -- The anti-Chinese movement -- pt. II. The transnational ghetto : life during the exclusion era (1882-1945). White dominance at home and abroad -- Anglo-conformity -- The Chinese build their community -- In search of respect -- American-born aliens -- Inroads to American politics -- pt. III. The Cold War shapes Chinese America (1946-1965). A window of opportunity -- Cold War and the Chinese American community -- Chinese professionals wanted! -- American-born achievers -- pt. IV. From civil rights to identity politics (1965-1980s). The rise of Asian America -- Struggle for identity -- Radicals and reformers -- Culture wars -- pt. V. Contemporary Chinese America. The rise and fall of Chinatowns -- Into the suburbs -- Chinese American transnationals -- Ethnoburbs -- A culture of growing self-confidence -- The limits of the civil rights agenda -- pt. VI. Suburban and symbolic politics. The middle class enters the fray -- The money trail -- The China/Chinese American tangle -- Postscript : Chinese America in the twenty-first century.