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This book deals with the daily life of a hidden group. Revealing
the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese
Americans, this book places the children and families of early
Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of
exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions
of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families
- and particularly children - played important roles in its daily
life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth
created by competing interests with their own agendas - from
anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and
culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered
to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations,
Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when
American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves
as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion,
cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and
violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for
themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of
the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and
realize the ideal of equality.
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