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Chinese in the Post-Civil War South : A People Without a History by Lucy M. Cohen (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Language: English. Number of Pages: 232. Weight: 0.78 lbs. Publication Date: 1999-03-01. Publisher: LSU Press.

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PublisherLSU

ISBN-100807124575

ISBN-139780807124574

eBay Product ID (ePID)274677

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Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameChinese in the Post-Civil War South : a People Without a History

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorLucy M. Cohen

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN83-019626

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal975/.004951

SynopsisIn much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, ?Chinatowns,? in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to merge into the surrounding communities within a single generation?s time, quickly disappearing from historical accounts and becoming, as they themselves phrased it, a ?mixed nation.? Lucy M. Cohen?s Chinese in the Post-Civil War South traces the experience of the Chinese who came to the South during Reconstruction. Many of them were recruited by planters eager to fill the labor vacuum created by emancipation with ?coolie? labor. The Planters? aims were obstructed in part by the federal government?s determination not to allow the South the opportunity to create a new form of slavery. Some Chinese did, however, enter into labor contracts with planters?agreements that the planters often altered without consultation or negotiation with the workers. With the Chinese intent upon the inviolability of their contracts, the arrangements with the planters soon broke down. At the end of their employment on the plantations, some of the immigrants returned to China or departed for other areas of the United States. Still others, however, chose to remain near where they had been employed. Living in cultural isolation rather than in the China towns in major cities, the immigrants soon no longer used their original language to communicate within the home; they adopted new surnames, so that even among brothers and sisters variations of names existed; they formed no associations or guilds specific to their heritage; and they intermarried, so that a few generations later their physical features were no longer readily observable in their descendants. Based on extensive research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of the immigrants, this study by Lucy Cohen is the first history of the Chinese in the Reconstruction South?their rejection of the role that planter society had envisioned for them and their quick adaptation into a less rigid segment of rural southern society., In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, "Chinatowns," in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to merge into the surrounding communities within a single generation's time, quickly disappearing from historical accounts and becoming, as they themselves phrased it, a "mixed nation." Lucy M. Cohen's Chinese in the Post-Civil War South traces the experience of the Chinese who came to the South during Reconstruction. Many of them were recruited by planters eager to fill the labor vacuum created by emancipation with "coolie" labor. The Planters' aims were obstructed in part by the federal government's determination not to allow the South the opportunity to create a new form of slavery. Some Chinese did, however, enter into labor contracts with planters--agreements that the planters often altered without consultation or negotiation with the workers. With the Chinese intent upon the inviolability of their contracts, the arrangements with the planters soon broke down. At the end of their employment on the plantations, some of the immigrants returned to China or departed for other areas of the United States. Still others, however, chose to remain near where they had been employed. Living in cultural isolation rather than in the China towns in major cities, the immigrants soon no longer used their original language to communicate within the home; they adopted new surnames, so that even among brothers and sisters variations of names existed; they formed no associations or guilds specific to their heritage; and they intermarried, so that a few generations later their physical features were no longer readily observable in their descendants. Based on extensive research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of the immigrants, this study by Lucy Cohen is the first history of the Chinese in the Reconstruction South--their rejection of the role that planter society had envisioned for them and their quick adaptation into a less rigid segment of rural southern society.