Chinese Immigration

Search Strategy

Chinese immigration

WebCat Search Everything: chinese americans chinese immigration chinese immigrants chinese and immigrants asian americans asian immigration asian immigrants

WebCat Search by Subject: chinese americans chinese americans history chinese and immigration chinese and immigrants asian americans asian and immigration asian and immigrants chinatown california

ProQuest Search: chinese and california and merchants chinese and california and gold rush chinese and california and railroads

Mexican immigration

WebCat Search Everything: farmworkers bracero OR braceros mexican americans history hispanic americans

WebCat Search by Subject: migrant agricultural laborers united farm workers mexican americans history mexicana american ethnic identity mexican americans civil rights mexican american families california

ProQuest Search: hispanic americans and migrant workers hispanic americans and farm workers Selected Library Books on Chinese American History Currently held at the Reserve Desk (3rd floor).

A place called Chinese America / Diane Mei Lin Mark and Ginger Chih.

At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee.

The Chinese experience in America / Shih-shan Henry Tsai.

The Chinese in America : a narrative history / Iris Chang.

The Chinese / C.J. Shane.

Claiming America : constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era / K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan.

Mountain of gold : the story of the Chinese in America / Betty Lee Sung.

Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung

Notes: 1. If you need additional sources, use the subject headings listed in the orientation handout. The Library has many other books on your topic! 2. Books on the Chinese way of life (mainland China) – which may not have changed much since the 19th century – might help you understand the culture that the early Chinese settlers brought with them to California. Example: Encountering the Chinese: A Guide for Americans DS721.H71114 1999 (Library, 4th floor) 3. The Library also has family histories of the Chinese Americans, for example, On Gold Mountain. F870.C5S44 1995 (Library, 4th floor)

Websites on Chinese American History

Ancestors in the Americas http://www.cetel.org/ A PBS production (1998) shows the history and legacy of early Asian immigration to the Americas, from the 1700s to the 1900s. Click on “Programs” to start and then explore the various Web pages and links.

Angel Island Immigration Station http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html Angel Island was the entry point for Asian immigrants to California in the 19th century and is thus the West Coast equivalent of Ellis Island.

Museum of the City of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.html This page from the site’s index provides links to original documents and illustrations in the Museum that deal with the Chinese experience in San Francisco. Chinese Americans in California http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views3.htm From a 1988 National Parks Service publication titled Five Views, this report depicts the early decades of Chinese American history from 1850 to 1900.

Chinese History in the U.S.A. – A Short History of the Chinese in San Diego, California http://www.sandiegochinese.net/htmls/history.htm An account written by a member of the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California (1996).

Chinese Americans in Los Angeles: A Brief History and Timeline http://www.camla.org/history.htm From the Museum of Chinese American History in Los Angeles.

Chinatown Resource Guide http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/index.html This companion site to a PBS show on San Francisco’s Chinatown features a short history as well as suggestions for class projects.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California http://www.chssc.org/index.shtml Click on “Historical timeline” for highlights of Chinese American history, then on “19th Century Shrine” which focuses on how the Chinese in Los Angeles suffered from discrimination even in death.

Selected Library Books on Mexican American History (Library, 4th floor)

E184.M5G34 2002 The Mexican Americans / Alma M. Garcia

E184.M5G645 2003 A century of Chicano history : empire, nations, and migration / Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez

E184.M5M456 1993 Mexican Americans, American Mexicans : from Conquistadors to Chicanos / Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Ribera

E184.M5M49 2005 The Mexicans / C.J. Shane

E184.S75D85 1998 The Spanish speakers in the United States : a history / Peter J. Duignan and L.H. Gann

F790.M5M37 2001 Mexican-origin people in the United States : a topical history / Oscar J. Martínez

F869.L89A253 2001 A world of its own : race, labor, and citrus in the making of greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 / Matt García

HD1525.C63 1971 "Wetbacks" and braceros: Mexican migrant laborers and American immigration policy, 1930-1960 HD1527.C2G84 1994 Mexican workers and American dreams : immigration, repatriation, and California farm labor, 1900- 1939 / Camille Guerin-Gonzales

HD6509.C48F47 1997 The fight in the fields : Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers movement / Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval

JV6471.P67 2001 Legacies : the story of the immigrant second generation / Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut

JV6895.M48C37 2003 Mexican emigration to the United States, 1897-1931 : socio-economic patterns / Lawrence A. Cardoso

Websites on Mexican American History

United Farm Workers http://www.ufw.org/ Click on Research for history, white papers, and other interesting links.

Mexican Immigrant Labor History http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/17.html This section of the PBS program “The Border” looks at the long history of Mexican labor in the United States.

Los Braceros 1942-1964 http://www.farmworkers.org/benglish.html

Gilder Lehrman Explorations: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/mex_am/index.cfm Steve Mintz, history professor at the University of Houston, provides a guide to the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s resources on Mexican-American history.

CLNet History Resources http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/history.html Various Mexican American social movements are covered in this 1995 site.

Mexican/Chicano History http://www.brownpride.com/history/ Contains links to Chicano history sites, including Olvera Street and Zoot Suit Riots info.