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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... sexuality. The stories—official and unofficial—emerging out of the murder investigation ruptured New Yorkers' perceptions of not only Chinese immigrants in their midst but also the place of white working-class and middle-class women in ...
... 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 social ...
... sexual relations between Chinese and whites in New York City. The press provided sketches of several Chinese-white couples questioned by the police as potential witnesses. The presence of interracial couples is not surprising given that ...
... 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 forms of policing these relationships. The ...
... of the yellow peril' in its vilest form.” By treating their socializing with Chinese men as a criminal act, McQuaide categorized these women as potential sexual and social deviants similar to prostitutes or promiscuous 14 • Introduction.
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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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