Chinese America : The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     ix
The Chinese Encounter America (1840-1882)
Pioneers     3
The World They Left Behind     19
The China Trade and the Trade in Chinese Labor     27
Race     39
Labor     51
The World of Chinese Immigrants     75
The Anti-Chinese Movement     91
The Transnational Ghetto: Life During the Exclusion Era (1882-1945)
White Dominance at Home and Abroad     105
Anglo-Conformity     119
The Chinese Build Their Community     135
In Search of Respect     155
American-Born Aliens     171
Inroads to American Politics     181
The Cold War Shapes Chinese America (1946-1965)
A Window of Opportunity     201
Cold War and the Chinese American Community     213
Chinese Professionals Wanted!     227
American-Born Achievers     251
From Civil Rights to Identity Politics (1965-1980s)
The Rise of Asian America     261
Struggle for Identity     273
Radicals and Reformers     283
Culture Wars     301
Contemporary Chinese America
The Rise and Fall of Chinatowns     315
Into the Suburbs     333
Chinese American Transnationals     343
Ethnoburbs     355
A Culture of Growing Self-Confidence     363
The Limits of the Civil Rights Agenda     377
Suburban and Symbolic Politics
The Middle Class Enters the Fray     401
The Money Trail     411
The China / Chinese American Tangle     427
Postscript: Chinese America in the Twenty-first Century     447
Notes     455
Selected Bibliography     489
Index     495