University of Chicago Press
Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
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- Charlotte Brooks
- University of Chicago Press
- Hardcover
- 9780226193564
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.9 inches
- 1.05 pounds
- History > United States - 20th Century
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. On both coasts, Chinese Americans sought to gain political power and defend their civil rights, yet only the San Franciscans succeeded. Forging multiracial coalitions and encouraging voting and moderate activism, they avoided the deep divisions and factionalism that consumed their counterparts in New York. Drawing on extensive research in both Chinese- and English-language sources, Charlotte Brooks uncovers the complex, diverse, and surprisingly vibrant politics of an ethnic group trying to find its voice and flex its political muscle in Cold War America.
Author Bio
I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States and of the Chinese diaspora. My scholarship spans numerous fields, including immigration, race, Asian American history, politics, and urban history. I received my B.A. from Yale College and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. The author of three books and numerous articles, I am a professor of history at Baruch College, CUNY.
I am currently working on two new book-length projects. An American Family: The Moys of New York and Shanghai, is my first piece of narrative non-fiction. It follows the lives of six Chinese American siblings and their spouses during the exclusion era and into the postwar years. The second, Selling America in China, is a scholarly study of the promoters, diplomats, and small businesspeople who sold American products and ideas in and to republican China.
My occasional blog, Asian American History in New York City looks at sites of significance to Asian American history in the five boroughs. Someday, I’ll have time to regularly update it again!
Source: Blogs.baruch.cuny.edu
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