Diaspora and Class Consciousness
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Diaspora and Class Consciousness

Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

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eBook - ePub

Diaspora and Class Consciousness

Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

About this book

This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English language skills who work primarily at low-skill, blue-collar service jobs at the extreme margins of U.S. economy. The book moves away from the enclave paradigm by situating the Chinese immigrant experience within the larger context of transnational labor migration and the multiracial transformation of urban U.S. landscape. Through thick ethnographic descriptions, Lan explores Chinese immigrant workers' daily struggles to cope with the disjuncture between race as an American ideological construct and race as a lived experience. The book argues that Chinese immigrant workers' racial learning is not always a matter of personal choice, but is conditioned by structural factors such as the limitation of the Black and white racial binary, the transnational circulation of U.S. racial ideology, the negative influence of prevalent U.S. rhetoric such as multiculturalism and colorblindness, and class differentiations within the Chinese American community.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415719650
eBook ISBN
9781136466564
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Asian American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Diaspora and Class Consciousness
  3. Studies in Asian Americans
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Maps
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Introduction: Is This What You Call Racial Discrimination?
  13. 1 Imagining Chicago’s “Chinatown Community”: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Boundaries
  14. 2 Racial Learning Between China and the United States: A Transnational Perspective
  15. 3 Bridgeport: The Politics and Poetics of Space
  16. 4 The Ethnic Crucible of Learning to Labor
  17. 5 Chinese Immigrants Navigating Mexican Chicago
  18. 6 Citizenship, Class, and Coalition Building
  19. 7 “I Feel Somewhat American”: Race and Class Consciousness among Chinese American Youth
  20. Conclusion: In Search of Dignity and Respect
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index