The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York CityPrinceton University Press, 21 iul. 2020 - 320 pagini In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. |
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... Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX “The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History” CHAPTER SEVEN “Disgrace on the Whole Body of Our People” Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index ix xi 17 52 81 111 143 175 198 222 227 277 293.
... couples questioned by the police as potential witnesses. The presence of interracial couples is not surprising given that New York City did not have anti-miscegenation laws. Unlike many states on the West Coast and in the South, the New ...
... couples in Chinatown. Until recently, historians writing on late nineteenth and early-twentieth-century urban Chinese American communities in the United States have not studied fully the subject of interracial marriages, sexual ...
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CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 81 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 111 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 143 |
CHAPTER | 175 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 198 |
Epilogue | 222 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 293 |
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