Screen LibraryBrokering belonging：Chinese in Canada's exclusion era, 1885-1945
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 230 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199733132 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0199733139 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780199733149 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199733147 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
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D771.138 D634.371.1 |
| Call Number: | D634.371.1/M298 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-215) and index. Negotiating protection : illegal immigration and party machines -- Arguing cases : legal interpreters, law, and society -- Popularizing politics : the anti-segregation movement as social revolution -- Fixing knowledge : Pacific Coast Chinese leaders' management of the Chicago School of Sociology -- Transforming democracy : brokerage politics and the exclusion era's denouement -- Conclusion. "Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Lisa Rose Mar's study of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. Drawing on new Chinese language evidence, her dramatic account of political power struggles over representing Chinese Canadians o |