Jung

2006 · réf. w0327 — Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 2006. Scholarly monograph on Asian immigration to the United States and the often contradictory attitudes towards these workers. Many poor Chinese had agreed to work as indentured labor on Carribean sugar plantations from the 1830s on and after the Civil War freed Black Americans southern land owners began to solicit Asian laborers; the book concentrates on Louisiana sugar cane plantations examining shifting attitudes of white & Black Americans towards Asian workers there but also across the country. Hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear rubberstamped name on free endsheet; jacket shows minor edgewear. Text clean; x 2 275 pages; index note on sources notes tables a few maps & b/w photos. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Johns Hopkins Press Hardcover