Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations.Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also contributed to the labor supply.
In the South, many Chinese American men married African American women. For example, the tenth U.S. census of Louisiana alone showed 57% Chinese American men were married to African American women, and 43% to European American women. [4] In 1924, the law barred further entries of Chinese.
Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: the first 100 years. University of Washington Press, 1994. ISBN 0295974125, 9780295974125; Liu, Eric, A Chinaman's Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream. Public Affairs, 2014. ISBN 978-1610391948; Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans Bai Nian Gan Ku : the First Hundred Years.
Lai, Him Mark. "Chinese American Studies: A Historical Survey". Chinese America: History and Perspectives. 1995: 11–29. Lee, Erika, "Orientalisms in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to Asian American History," Journal of Asian American Studies vol 8#3 (2005) pp 235–256. Notes that 30–40% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before ...
Ethnic Chinese immigration to the United States since 1965 has been aided by the fact that the United States maintains separate quotas for Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. During the late 1960s and early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan creating the Taiwanese American subgroup.
Chinese immigration to Cuba started in 1847 when Cantonese low-wage workers were brought to work in the sugar fields, bringing their native Chinese folk religion with them. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were brought in from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan during the following decades to replace and / or work alongside African slaves. After ...
Unlike Washington and Oregon however, Chinese residents in Idaho had more freedom in a number of entities. For example, Chinese laborers had access to Idaho's legal courts. They were allowed to file complaints against both Chinese and whites. [14] Chinese children were also integrated into the public schools.
The 2021 U.S. Census also reports that 64.9% of Chinese American men and 61.3% of Chinese American women work in an elite white-collar profession, compared to 57.5% for all Asian Americans, and is a little more than one and a half times above the national average of 42.2%. [115]