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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... ethnic and racial homogeneity and solidarity as the basis of community life, erasing those members of the Chinatown community who were neither of Chinese descent nor of mixed parentage.” But a reexamination of the history of interracial ...
... ethnic and racial borders predicated on residents' desires to maintain ethnic solidarity and homogeneity. Seldom do today's writers make the effort to examine the spatial boundaries of America's Chinatowns and understand their creation ...
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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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