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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... moral and social lessons for readers—also worked to reassert social and spatial boundaries by restraining the physical and social movement of Chinese men and white women of all socioeconomic classes while reaffirming mobility as a white ...
... moral geography of territories of “daylight” and “darkness” that had been popularized by tourist guidebooks, newspapers, and magazines. While white middle- and upperclass neighborhoods were consistently bathed with sunlight and open air ...
... moral and social reform. The deviousness of the Chinese men posing as converts to meet young white women, for these writers, was matched by the sentimentality and naïveté of the white female missionaries. Not surprisingly many of the ...
... moral character. According to the New York Times, Captain Carey put forth the theory that she may have met him in her neighborhood that Wednesday morning and “he induced her to go to his oriental den on Eighth Avenue.” Carey also ...
... moral order. These narratives of interracial sexual liaisons circulating in popular culture worked to construct categories of sexual and moral deviance and helped in the absence of anti-miscegenation laws to support other institutional ...
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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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