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Call# |
974.71-K |
Summary |
Against all odds, Kinkead managed to get recent immigrants to Chinatown to speak to her - an astonishing feat for low faan (a barbarian, white person) with a notepad. Her portraits of Chinatown's invisible people are intriguing. They work in its garment factories and restaurants, where child labor laws seem not to obtain; they do not speak English and have no desire or opportunity to learn the language; they rarely, if ever, venture outside Chinatown's boundaries and have no interest in the American world surrounding their enclave. |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Kinkead, Gwen, 1951- |
Subjects |
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions |
Title |
Chinatown : a portrait of a closed society. |
Published Date |
1992 |
Physical Description |
xii, 211 p. ; 25 cm. |
Catalog Number |
2004.051.139 |
Accession number |
2004.051 |
Publisher |
HarperCollins |
Collection |
Museum of Chinese in America - Found in Collection |
Year Range from |
1992 |