In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America

by Charles McClain

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520083377
• ISBN13: 9780520083370
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.