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The Architecture of San Francisco Chinatown
Present-day visitors to Chinatown see it only as an unassimilated foreign community where cultural traditions are preserved and where the architectural forms are mere transplants from China. Transfixed by cultural exotics, few see that the social…
Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882 Congress passed the nation’s first immigration legislation—a law to prevent people of Chinese descent from entering the United States. The law would tear apart families, cut the nation’s Chinese American population in half,…
Cal Day 2006: Archaeology in the community -- Rediscovering the Bay Area's Chinese Heritage: Oakland's San Pablo Avenue Chinatown
Community historians preserved the story of Oakland city fathers in the early 1860s naming an “official” Chinatown at Telegraph and 17th Street. In the following years, Edward Chew recorded, Chinese Oaklanders would be subjected to…