Lisa Rose Mar

Brokering Belonging (eBook, ePUB)

Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Lisa Rose Mar's study of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. Drawing on new Chinese language evidence, her dramatic account of political power struggles over representing Chinese Canadians offers a transnational immigrant view of history, centered in a Pacific World that joins Canada, the United States, China, and the British Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199780051
• Artikelnr.: 38147897

Autorenporträt

Lisa Rose Mar is an Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1.: Negotiating Protection: Illegal Immigration and Party Machines
* 2.: Arguing Cases: Legal Interpreters, Law, and Society
* 3.: Popularizing Politics: the Anti-Segregation Movement as Social
Revolution
* 4.: Fixing Knowledge: Pacific Coast Chinese Leaders' Management of
the Chicago School of Sociology
* 5.: Transforming Democracy: Brokerage Politics and the Exclusion
Era's Denouement
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography