Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History by Lucy M. Cohen

Description: Chinese in the Post-Civil War South by Lucy M. Cohen Based on research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of 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 adaptation into a less rigid segment of rural southern society. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 generations time, quickly disappearing from historical accounts and becoming, as they themselves phrased it, a ""mixed nation.""Lucy M. Cohens 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 governments 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. Author Biography Lucy M. Cohen is a professor of anthropology at the Catholic University of America. She was previously a research associate at the Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution. Details ISBN0807124575 Author Lucy M. Cohen Short Title CHINESE IN THE POST CIVIL WAR Publisher Louisiana State University Press Language English ISBN-10 0807124575 ISBN-13 9780807124574 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Louisiana State University Press Place of Publication Baton Rouge Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle A People Without a History DOI 10.1604/9780807124574 AU Release Date 1999-03-01 NZ Release Date 1999-03-01 UK Release Date 1999-03-01 Pages 277 Year 1999 Publication Date 1999-03-30 DEWEY 975.004951 Audience General US Release Date 1999-03-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101431333;

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