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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... white women of all socioeconomic classes while reaffirming mobility as a white male privilege. Despite these efforts, the reinscription of such boundaries into New York City's rapidly changing landscape proved difficult. Surprising ...
... white womanhood under assault, such as those appearing after the Elsie Sigel murder, echoed this period's concerns ... women and working-class men and women." In New York City, narratives of racial and sexual danger worked to refashion ...
... white women, for these writers, was matched by the sentimentality and naïveté of the white female missionaries. Not surprisingly many of the city's writers and cartoonists portrayed Chinese men as hypersexualized creatures posing ...
... white couples questioned by the police as potential witnesses. The presence of interracial couples is not surprising ... women who chose to marry Chinese men were described as poor immigrant or working-class women whose economic ...
... women were allowed to stay only because they possessed marriage licenses.” Such measures restricted the social and physical mobility of white teenage girls, women, and Chinese men and reinscribed social and spatial borders in areas of ...
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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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