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Diaspora and class consciousness :

Lan, Shanshan.

Diaspora and class consciousness : Chinese immigrant workers in multiracial Chicago / Shanshan Lan. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - xix, 198 p. : ill., maps. - Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics . - Asian Americans. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.

1. Imagining Chicago's "Chinatown community" : the making and unmaking of interracial boundaries -- 2. Racial learning between China and the United States : a transnational perspective -- 3. Bridgeport : the politics and poetics of space -- 4. The ethnic crucible of learning to labor -- 5. Chinese immigrants navigating Mexican Chicago -- 6. Citizenship, class and coalition building -- 7. "I feel somewhat American" : race and class consciousness among Chinese American youth.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9780203128077 (e-book : PDF)


Chinese Americans--Social conditions.--Illinois--Chicago
Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation--Illinois--Chicago.
Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity--illinois--Chicago.
Class consciousness--Illinois--Chicago.


Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.


Electronic books.