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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... Interracial dating—New York (State)—New York—Public opinion. 5. Murder—New York (State)—New York—Case studies. I. Title. JV6483.L85 2005 364.152'3'097471—dc22 2004044252 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This ...
... Interracial 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 ...
... interracial marriage and sexual relations between Chinese and whites in New York City. The press provided sketches of several Chinese-white couples questioned by the police as potential witnesses. The presence of interracial couples is ...
... interracial 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 ...
... interracial sex and exhaustive accounts of the dramatic manhunt for the missing Chinese male fugitives, provide a wealth of material for understanding this process of urban cultural, social, and spatial transformation. To begin this ...
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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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