Diaspora and Class Consciousness: Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

By Shanshan Lan

This project adopts an interracial framework in studying the convergence and divergence of minority experiences in a highly racialized urban setting, treating the Chinese immigrant experience as a pivot through which to examine the complex process of the multiracial transformation of white majority neighborhoods. But it also goes beyond the hegemonic black/white binary in studying race relations in the United States, exploring the interconnectedness among different minority experiences and aiming to bridge the gap between a U.S.-centered view of race and a transnational perspective generated by recent scholarship on migration and transnationalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415890365
• ISBN13: 9780415890366
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"