The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded Paperback Edition - Paperback
by Mae M. Ngai
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691155326ISBN-10:691155321UPC:9780691155326Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC7C36ZCFA
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded Paperback Edition
The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans.
Tape family history illuminates American...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691155326ISBN-10:691155321UPC:9780691155326Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC7C36ZCFA
Mae Ngai is professor of history and the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
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