Introduction
Ch 1 Negotiating Protection: Illegal Immigration and Party
Machines
Ch 2 Arguing Cases: Legal Interpreters, Law, and Society
Ch 3 Popularizing Politics: the Anti-Segregation Movement as Social
Revolution
Ch 4 Fixing Knowledge: Pacific Coast Chinese Leaders' Management of
the Chicago School of Sociology
Ch 5 Transforming Democracy: Brokerage Politics and the Exclusion
Era's Denouement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Lisa Rose Mar is an Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
"Highly innovative .This study of politics from the middle will
shape the way political, immigration, and ethnic historians view
power politics."--American Historical Review
"Lisa Mar has written a history from neither above nor below, but
from the middle. Her account of Chinese Canadian immigrant brokers
during the exclusion era shows an active world of politics taking
place 'off stage,' in patronage deals made in the back rooms of
political parties, law offices, and in the Chinese-language press.
This is a fascinating study that changes the way we think about
Chinese immigrant communities and the ways in which power
operates."--Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University
"Lisa Mar's work uncovers the complex political and social life in
Vancouver's Chinese community to a depth that goes beyond earlier
scholarship. Mar's ability to follow the lives of the 'brokers' who
could operate both in Chinese and English language worlds--tracing
their ability to translate and represent each side to the other and
to take advantage of their advantageous position as
go-betweens--gives us insights into the complicated world of
political
deal-making and betrayal that almost no other scholar has been able
to achieve."--Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration,
Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
"Brokering Belonging reinscribes general scholarship concerning
ethnicity and immigration with the adventures of politically
adroit, transnational yet highly acculturated Chinese Canadian
'brokers' who successfully strategized for greater access and
rights on behalf of an otherwise legally and ideologically marginal
minority population. Despite the inherent contradictions between
their roles as advocates, interpreters, and influence peddlers,
Mar
persuasively argues that brokers made it possible for even small
immigrant groups to sink roots into hostile soil."--Madeline Y.
Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
"Short but riveting...A work that is vast in its implications...By
using transnational lives and experiences to inform our
understanding of the Chinese experience in Canada, Mar offers a
convincing portrait of how transnationalism and national
experiences intersect and effectively broadens the scope of the
national lens."--H-Net Reviews
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