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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... physical terrain and social relations were changing—with the arrival and settlement of new immigrant groups and with cleavages between various socioeconomic classes—the murder warned that past attempts to maintain social order through ...
... physical and social movement of Chinese men and 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 ...
... physical landscape. Popular Chinatown narratives that portray white womanhood under assault, such as those appearing after the Elsie Sigel murder, echoed this period's concerns with the physical and social mobility of different urban ...
... physical mobility of white teenage girls, women, and Chinese men and reinscribed social and spatial borders in areas of the city where these groups overlapped. Sigel by contrast did not fit the press's stereotypical portrait of the poor ...
... physical and social mobility in turn-ofthe-century New York has been replaced by the more popular view of Chinese American working-class urban neighborhoods as “Chinatowns” with fixed ethnic and racial borders predicated on residents ...
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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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