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A carregar... The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatownpor Julia Flynn Siler
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Sorry, Ms Siler, I couldn't actually read it all through. I don't know how you managed to research the subject without losing your own equilibrium. It's this kind of history that makes me supremely disgusted with the United States of America and so many of it's people. That folk like Dolly Cameron existed to fight racism and it's institutionalized supporters is laudable but should never have been necessary. Money and jealousy are the roots of all evil and USA has those two ingredients aplenty. I thank Ms Siler for putting all this hateful history into one place for us to explore as we need to, but humankind never learns from history in order to make itself better. Enough... sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters--a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women. With compassion and an investigative historian's sharp eyes, Siler tells the story of both the abolitionists, who challenged the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time, and the young women who dared to flee their fate. She relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led, sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This did seem to meander a little bit towards the middle, as it initially seemed like this was going to be a biography of Donaldina Cameron and the history of the Mission House but expanded to include San Francisco Chinatown history of the period like Dr. Ng Poon Chew and his paper, and Arnold Genthe the photographer. Chapters were short- about 5 pages, including an image and really felt more like vignettes loosely in a theme together. Still, this is another book to teach people about the effects of Chinese Exclusion on American immigration policy and how it shaped our communities for the longest time. I shouldn't be surprised that not many people are as familiar with this period as they ought to be, but I have the familial connection of relatives who *did* come through via the merchant exception, and at least one paper son in my tree (I suspect others, but even though parties are long dead relatives still remain tightlipped over the whiff of illegality). I would've liked a tighter focus on the Mission House and its residents rather than an overview of Chinese American history, but again, if it's not history someone's already familiar with I can see how it's compelling.
Re: the title- "white devil" is a colloquialism I heard used to reference white people in general (baakgwai per wiki's romanization, which I guess more accurately is "white ghost") so I'm not sure if it was an epithet towards Ms. Cameron in particular, but it does make for an eye-catching title.
Given there is an Ah Toy in the Cinemax show Warrior (albeit maybe a decade or two younger than the real Ah Toy was at the time), I feel like we're going to see a fictionalized version of Cameron sooner rather than later. ( )