Introduction
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Visitors to Los Angeles’s historic center, if they look carefully, will find information about the city’s original Chinatown not far from Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, Avila Adobe, a monument to Latino American war veterans, and the Mexican-themed commercial district of Ol-vera Street. One sidewalk placard marks the location on Calle de los Negros where on October 24, 1871, a mob of “500 locals shot, hung, and stabbed innocent Chinese residents.” This “massacre,” the marker reads, erupted during a period when “anti-Chinese legislation and social discrimination greatly affected Chinese American families and their community life” and “left them without legal protection.”...
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2012 ◽
Vol 2012
(135)
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pp. 13-34
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2007 ◽
Vol 9
(1)
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pp. 38-51
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2000 ◽
Vol 14
(3)
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pp. 420-435
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