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Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America

Name: Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America
Author: Chelsea Rose
ISBN: 9780813066356

Edited by Chelsea Rose and J. Ryan Kennedy

Published by: University Press of Florida

Showcasing the enormous amount of archaeological data available on the experiences of Chinese people who migrated to the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions for the field of Chinese diaspora archaeology by providing fresh, more nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.

368 Pages6.13 × 9.2538 b/w illus, 6 tables

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Published: April 8, 2020

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Archaeologists are increasingly interested in studying the experiences of Chinese immigrants, yet this area of research is mired in long-standing interpretive models that essentialize race and identity. Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to North America in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh approaches to interpreting immigrant life.

In this volume, leading scholars first tackle broad questions of how best to position and understand these populations. They then delve into a variety of site-based and topical case studies, providing new approaches to themes like Chinese immigrant foodways and highlighting understudied topics including entrepreneurialism, cross-cultural interactions, and conditions in the Jim Crow South. Pushing back against old colonial-based tropes, contributors call for an awareness of the transnational relationships created through migration, engagement with broader archaeological and anthropological debates, and the expansion of research into new contexts and topics.

Chelsea Rose is research faculty at Southern Oregon University. J. Ryan Kennedy is a research associate at the University of New Orleans.

“A strong presentation of ideas for advancing archaeological research on the challenges confronted and opportunities created by Chinese men and women who made their lives outside their homeland.”—Charles E. Orser Jr., author of The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America
“This volume is the future of archaeological research on North America’s Chinese diaspora. The chapters brilliantly expand our knowledge of this dynamic and heterogeneous community by weaving together new evidence and theoretical perspectives. The result is a template for deepening our understanding of migrant communities across time and space.”—Edward González-Tennant, author of The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
“Admirable for the quality of scholars assembled, this book pushes the field of Chinese diaspora archaeology in new directions.”—Mark S. Warner, author of Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity

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Chapter 1. Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America
J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose

Chapter 2. Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora
Douglass E. Ross

Chapter 3. Towards Engaged and Critical Archaeologies of the Chinese Diaspora
Kelly N. Fong 方少芳

Chapter 4. Exposing Negative Chinese Terminology and Stereotypes
Priscilla Wegars

Chapter 5. Interethnic Relationships in 19th-Century Chinatowns: New Perspectives from Archaeological Research and Missionary Women’s Writings
Barbara L. Voss

Chapter 6. An Archaeology of a Chinese Laundryman in the Jim Crow South: The Sam Long Laundry, New Orleans, Louisiana
D. Ryan Gray

Chapter 7. Burned: The Archaeology of House and Home in Jacksonville, Oregon’s Chinese Quarter
Chelsea Rose

Chapter 8. “Let my Body Be Buried Here”: A Long View of Chinese Immigrants in the American West
Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis

Chapter 9. Towards an Historical Archaeology of the Chinese in Montana and A Transnational Lens
Christopher Merritt

Chapter 10. Between South China and Southern California: the Formation of Transnational Chinese Communities
Laura W. Ng

Chapter 11. Meat Economies of the Chinese-American West
Charlotte K. Sunserit

Chapter 12. Bounty from the Sea: Chinese Foundations of the Commercial Shrimp, Squid, and Abalone Fisheries in California
Linda Bentz and Todd J. Braje

Chapter 13. Flexible Plant Food Practices Among the 19th Century Chinese Migrants to Western North America
Virginia S. Popper

Chapter 14. Multi-sited Networks: The Underlying Analytical Power of Transnational and Diasporic Approaches
Henry Yu

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