Chinatown, N. Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950
Peter Kwong, "Chinatown, N. Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0853455090, 1565846400 | PDF | pages: 210 | 18.0 mb
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0853455090, 1565846400 | PDF | pages: 210 | 18.0 mb
This is the first analytical history of a long neglected segment of United States urban society. In this book Peter Kwong demonstrates how, contrary to the stereotypic view, Chinatowns across the country have not been static, untouched by the class struggle. He reconstructs the history of the left and labor movements in New York City's Chinatown, focussing on the crucial decades of the 1930s and 1940s, but beginning with the introduction of the Chinese to the United States in the 1840s to work in the California gold mines andon the transcontinental railroad.