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UNINA9910466338003321 |
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Autore |
Mendelson Anne |
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Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey / / Anne Mendelson |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Collana |
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Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history |
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Cooking, Chinese - History |
Chinese Americans - Food - History |
Food habits - United States |
Emigration and immigration - United States - History |
Chinese American families - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Terminology -- Introduction -- Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen -- Part I -- One. Origins: The Toisan-California Pipeline -- Two. The Culinary "Language" Barrier -- Three. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain -- Four. The Road to Chinatown -- Part II -- Five. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine -- Six. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" -- Seven. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine -- Eight. An Advancement of Learning -- Nine. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration -- Postscript: What Might Have Been -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white patrons despite a virulently anti-Chinese climate is one of several pivotal events in Anne Mendelson's thoughtful history of American Chinese food. Chow Chop Suey uses cooking to trace |
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different stages of the Chinese community's footing in the larger white society.Mendelson begins with the arrival of men from the poorest district of Canton Province during the Gold Rush. She describes the formation of American Chinatowns and examines the curious racial dynamic underlying the purposeful invention of hybridized Chinese American food, historically prepared by Cantonese-descended cooks for whites incapable of grasping Chinese culinary principles. Mendelson then follows the eventual abolition of anti-Chinese immigration laws and the many demographic changes that transformed the face of Chinese cooking in America during and after the Cold War. Mendelson concludes with the post-1965 arrival of Chinese immigrants from Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and many regions of mainland China. As she shows, they have immeasurably enriched Chinese cooking in America but tend to form comparatively self-sufficient enclaves in which they, unlike their predecessors, are not dependent on cooking for a white clientele. |
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UNINA9910449938803321 |
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Autore |
Klarman Michael J |
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From Jim Crow to civil rights [[electronic resource] ] : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality / / Michael J. Klarman |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
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0-19-531018-7 |
1-280-56001-0 |
0-19-535167-3 |
0-19-530212-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (670 p.) |
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Segregation - Law and legislation - United States - History |
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United States Race relations History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-626) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Plessy era -- The progressive era -- The interwar period -- World War II era : context and cases -- World War II era : consequences -- School desegregation -- Brown and the civil rights movement. |
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This book examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era, and the Interwar period to World Wars I and II, Brown and the Civil Rights Movement. It explores the variety of consequences that Brown may have had, and more. |
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