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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese Americaby Mae Ngai
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:If youre Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, theres a rich literature to give you a sense of your familys arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasnt been the case for Chinese Americans. From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. Its a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dips (Joseph Tapes) self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables. Ngais portrayal of the Tapes as the first of a brand-new social type—middle-class Chinese Americans, with touring cars, hunting dogs, and society weddings to broadcast it—will astonish. Again and again, Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie Tape attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 Tape v. Hurley. The familys intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair reveals how the Chinese American culture brokers essentially invented Chinatown—and so Chinese culture—for American audiences. Finally, Mae Ngai reveals aspects—timely, haunting, and hopeful—of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. Synopsis:A noted historian uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family in a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dip's (Joseph Tape's) self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables.
Synopsis:Through captivating family saga, an award-winning historian delivers the story--provocative and thrillingly original--of one family's invention of middle-class Chinese America About the AuthorMAE NGAI's Impossible Subjects, on illegal immigration, was called "deeply stimulating" and "highly original" by the Los Angeles Times. It won the AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize for best book on American law and society, and the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book on any topic in American history. Ngai is a professor of history at Columbia University. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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