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The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 Paperback – 1 October 2009

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    The University of North Carolina Press
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    1 October 2009
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    15.24 x 1.8 x 23.11 cm
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Illuminates an important, generally overlooked, if not historically invisible, component of a community. . . . The archival research . . . is impressive and solid.--Journal of American History

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Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press; 1st edition (1 October 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807859737
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807859735
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.8 x 23.11 cm
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    Wendy L. Rouse is a historian specializing in recovering the stories of women and children living in the US during the Progressive Era. Her most recent book, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement (NYU Press, 2022), reveals the role of queer suffragists and queerness in the fight for the vote. In 2017, Rouse is also the author of Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement (NYU Press) which examines the emergence of women's self-defense alongside the first-wave of feminism during the Progressive Era and Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco (UNC Press 2009) which explores the lives of Chinese American children during the era of Chinese exclusion. Rouse is an Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University.

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    Wendy Rouse became interested in Chinese American history while studying history and archaeology at Sacramento State University. She worked as an archaeologist for several years conducting excavations on Chinese mining sites in Northern California. Her Ph.D. research at UC Davis focused on American immigration history during the Progressive Era, with a special emphasis on Asian American history. Her present research focuses on childhood and family life in the early twentieth century.

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