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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... Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan CHAPTER TWO Beyond Chinatown: Policing Chinese American Male Mobility in New York City CHAPTER THREE Policing Urban Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the ...
... racial identification at the turn-of-thecentury in chapter 7 was greatly improved as a result of my participation in a collaborative research project on the history of fingerprinting and the Chinese Exclusion Act with Simon Cole. My ...
... racial and gender ideologies upon which these boundaries were erected. READING AND MAPPING TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK CITY CHINATOWN Revisiting nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century published texts that purport to describe ...
... racial and sexual danger worked to refashion spatial and social boundaries disrupted by the settlement of Chinese throughout the city. Changing gender roles and sexual mores granted urban women such as Elsie Sigel increased physical and ...
... racial and gender trespassing. DECIPHERING THE WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a typical New Yorker but instead the granddaughter of a wellknown Civil War general in the Union ...
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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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