Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming 9780525557371, 9780525557388, 2022040793, 2022040794, 0525557377

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family’s epic journey to

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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
9780525557371, 9780525557388, 2022040793, 2022040794, 0525557377

This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial

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A land is in turmoil, split between rival kings, between past and future, between unity and destruction. Into this unres

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Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. John

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A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictiti

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From Wall Street to Bay Street is the first book for a lay audience to tackle the similarities and differences between t

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Presents a case study of the Chinese Exclusion law to understand the manner in which Congress functions in relation to f

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They say a house is a home, but it could also be a curse. A terrifying true story of a seemingly ordinary house in a s

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'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It wa

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* * * Book and author featured in Nexos, an American Airlines inflight magazine * * * The Street or Me is the true story

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