The Lucky Ones One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai
epub | 5.29 MB | English | Isbn:B003ZX8FDI | Author: Mae Ngai | Year: 2010
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If you're Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, there's a rich literature to give you a sense of your family's arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasn't been the case for Chinese Americans.
From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. It's a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dip's (Joseph Tape's) self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables. Ngai's portrayal of the Tapes as the first of a brand-new social type-middle-class Chinese Americans, with touring cars, hunting dogs, and society weddings to broadcast it-will astonish.
Again and again, Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie Tape attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's...
Category:Biographies & Memoirs of Asian & Asian American, Asian American Studies, Multicultural Education Methods
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