In Search of Equality (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles J. McClain
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1850-1900
- Setting: California
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Discrimination, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Race, Nineteenth century, California, West, U.S., Equality, Migrant labor, Constitutional law, Chinese Americans, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: California
In the textbook version of American history a generation ago, Chinese Americans were virtually invisible. Indeed, as Charles McClain observes in the introduction to this invaluable study, even the scholarly works that focused on the first Chinese immigrants to the United States tended to view them as curiously passive, stoical victims of discrimination—if not invisible, still far from being seen as actors on the stage of history. Increasingly, however, as McClain notes, scholars have sought “to see the Chinese more as subjects and shapers than as objects of history.” In that vein,...
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