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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457292303321

Autore

Yee Shirley J. <1959->

Titolo

An immigrant neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : interethnic and interracial encounters in New York before 1930 / / Shirley J. Yee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-33388-0

9786613333889

1-59213-129-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009747

Soggetti

Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Ethnic neighborhoods - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

New York (N.Y.) Race relations History 20th century

New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Households, families and community" -- "Building commercial relations" -- "Sustaining life and caring for the dead" -- Mixing with the sinners: the anti-vice movement -- "On (un)common ground: religious politics in settlements and missions.

Sommario/riassunto

Examining race and ethnic relations through an intersectional lens, Shirley Yee's An Immigrant Neighborhoodinvestigates the ways that race, class, and gender together shaped concepts of integration and assimilation as well as whiteness and citizenship in lower Manhattan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.In contrast to accounts of insulated neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves, Yee unearths the story of working class urban dwellers of various ethnic groups-Chinese, Jews, Italians, and Irish-routinely interacting in social and economic settings.<P