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Institutions and individuals: Space and power among Chinese in the northeastern United States, 1870-1920.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Institutions and individuals: Space and power among Chinese in the northeastern United States, 1870-1920./
Author:	McGlinn, Lawrence Alan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1992,
Description:	334 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3327.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-09A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9236875

Institutions and individuals: Space and power among Chinese in the northeastern United States, 1870-1920.
McGlinn, Lawrence Alan.

Institutions and individuals: Space and power among Chinese in the northeastern United States, 1870-1920. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1992 - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3327.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 1992.

The Chinese immigrant experience in the United States, though unique, may be understood in terms of two general concepts: space and power. Power is the ability to achieve a goal, and space is where power is exercised. This approach goes beyond the narrative, increasing sensitivity to scale, regionalization, segregation and the unequal distribution of power in society. Early Chinese immigrants are an appropriate case study because their spaces and power were limited by a discriminatory American society. Within severe constraints Chinese adapted. In particular, many Chinese remigrated from their original destination region in the West to the urban Northeast where their near invisibility to the Euro-American world stimulated less hostility than they had encountered in the West. Most northeastern Chinese lived as laundrymen alone or in small groups scattered about urban areas, but their strong social network centered on regional Chinatowns which helped maintain information channels to China. Power from any number of scales (international, state, individual, etc.) both enabled and constrained individual Chinese immigrants, but they were most powerful in the uncontested space of their laundries. They were powerless in the white world that surrounded them. Chinese associations both exercised power and mediated between the American state and immigrants because they controlled capital and information within Chinese space. In the past 25 years, the Chinese immigrant world has changed dramatically with the influx of a broad range of newcomers, but the "racial" categories fundamental to anti-Chinese discrimination are still largely in place.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Geography.

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