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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... working-class and middle-class women in a city undergoing rapid industrial and commercial expansion, and unprecedented population growth. Occurring when the city's physical terrain and social relations were changing—with the arrival and ...
... class women and working-class men and women." In New York City, narratives of racial and sexual danger worked to refashion spatial and social boundaries disrupted by the settlement of Chinese throughout the city. Changing gender roles ...
... class women of her station and calling, but behaved in the brash manner of urban working-class women who were targeted by that period's social reformers. In other words, Sigel acted less like a missionary/reformer than one who needed to ...
... working-class women whose economic deprivation led them to engage in socially deviant behavior that threatened the 10 * Introduction.
... working-class girls. It is not hard to understand why the teachers' parents disliked the superintendent's tactics and viewed their daughters as the innocent victims of brutish police harassment. Nonetheless, fearing further trouble from ...
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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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