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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... racial, 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 ...
... 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 discoveries about her past ...
... racial homogeneity and solidarity as the basis of community life, erasing those members of the Chinatown community who were neither of Chinese descent nor of mixed parentage.” But a reexamination of the history of interracial couples ...
... racial borders predicated on residents' desires to maintain ethnic solidarity and homogeneity. Seldom do today's writers make the effort to examine the spatial boundaries of America's Chinatowns and understand their creation as shaped ...
... racial and class boundaries, and ultimately established new social and spatial borders among its diverse populations to contain those forms of mobility that threatened to disrupt the urban moral order. The grisly details of the Sigel ...
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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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