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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... class and middle-class, white women who were similarly exploring their own potential for social and physical mobility in a city readily differentiated by race, class, and gender. In an industrialized city that promised women increased ...
... middle-class women throughout a city that included working-class immigrant neighborhoods such as Chinatown. The linking of the murder to this part of Manhattan worked to contain discursively and physically the movements of these groups ...
... middle-class family origins made her appear to resemble Elsie Sigel. At first Meloney described this Elsie as appearing to be content with her current life, but later revealed that she actually felt desperately trapped in Chinatown. In ...
... middle-class female audience: women who dared to engage in such sexual and racial transgressions would either become trapped or remain permanently tainted by their association. THE MAKING OF THE CHINATOWN SPACE Chinatown's rise as a ...
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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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