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In Search of Equality - The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, Revised)
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In Search of Equality - The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, Revised)
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Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to
battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and
education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the
stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a
politically savvy population capable of mobilizing to fight
mistreatment. He draws on English- and Chinese-language documents
and rarely studied sources to chronicle the ways the Chinese sought
redress and change in American courts. McClain focuses on the San
Francisco Bay Area, the home of almost one-fifth of the fifty
thousand Chinese working in California in 1870. He cites cases in
which Chinese laundrymen challenged the city of San Francisco's
discriminatory building restrictions, and lawsuits brought by
parents to protest the exclusion of Chinese children from public
schools. While vindication in the courtroom did not always bring
immediate change (Chinese schoolchildren in San Francisco continued
to be segregated well into the twentieth century), the Chinese
community's efforts were instrumental in establishing several legal
landmarks. In their battles for justice, the Chinese community
helped to clarify many judicial issues, including the parameters of
the Fourteenth Amendment and the legal meanings of
nondiscrimination and equality. Discussing a wide range of court
cases and gleaning their larger constitutional significance, "In
Search of Equality" brings to light an important chapter of
American cultural and ethnic history. It should attract attention
from American and legal historians, ethnic studies scholars, and
students of California culture.
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