Claiming America: Constructing Chinese-American Identities during the Exclusion Era.

Abstract

Preface Part I. The Immigrant Generation 1. Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement K. Scott Wong 2. The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League Quingsong Zhang 3.Exercise Your Sacred The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practicing Democracy Renqiu Yu Part II. The American-born Generations 4. Fighting for Their American Rights: A History of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Sue Fawn Chung 5. Race, Ethnic Culture, and Gender in the Construction of Identities among Second-Generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s Sucheng Chan 6. Go West ... to China: Chinese American Identity in the 1930s Gloria Chun 7. The Oriental Problem in America, 1920-1960: Linking the Identities of Chinese and Japanese American Intellectuals Henry Yu About the Contributors