"THE IDEA OF CHINATOWN"---A CRITIQUE To examine this chapter, I will give an overview of the major themes presented. ... The idea of a "Chinatown" was a new and derogatory term meant to classify and segregate Chinese immigrants. ... Chinatown has been a victimized colony of the East in the West... Now the "Chinatown" took on another meaning, it wasn't just a place where some Chinese lived. Now the government legitimized the idea of "Chinatown". ...

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The exhibit that I found interesting was an exhibit entitled Climbing Gold Mountain Chinatown: The Frontier. ... There were pictures of chinese people working as produce vendors along the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown. ...

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Author Laurence Yep argues in his piece, "The Hong Wah Kues Discover America," that the Chinese basketball team was used unfairly for the purpose of entertainment because they were treated as minorities and barely earned any money. Owner James W. Porter formed the Hong Wah Kues basketball team who c...

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The California Gold Rush was one of most monumental events in the history of the United States. It was responsible for shaping the foundation of the modern class and social system while also creating the first big immigrant trend after the colonial period. The events which followed James W Marshall's discovery of gold in Coloma, California during the year of 1848 were important not only because of the fact that it generated the expatriation of approximately 300,000 people (who were commonly referred to as the 49er's to signify their arrival during 1849) to the state of California but...

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Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues If students are to appreciate the work of Edith Eaton fully, they must be given its historical and social context. Namely, the reception of Chinese by dominate Americans before and during her period. Students should know that though the Chinese were never enslaved in this country, as were Africans, they were brought here in large numbers as indentured laborers or coolies. The Chinese Exclusion Act was only repealed in 1943 and naturalized citizenship for Asians was permitted in 1954, long after African-Americans and American Indians ...

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