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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... gender, and class boundaries. First, she undermined racial borders by treating Leon Ling as though he were a “white man,” as one reporter claimed, meaning that she saw him as a social equal. Second, she expressed the types of sentiments ...
... gender roles and maintain racial borders in the American Protestant missionary movement. As the police and reporters moved quickly to reconstruct Elsie Sigel's movements prior to her disappearance, they made even more troubling ...
... gender. In an industrialized city that promised women increased opportunities for work and commercial leisure, these groups met one another and explored the limits and possibilities for their social interaction. Poised at the dawn of ...
... Gender Boundaries in Lower Manhattan DESPITE THE FACT that the victim and chief suspects neither lived nor worked in Chinatown and that the murder itself did not occur in Chinatown, the press and police nonetheless connected the murder ...
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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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