Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Chin Ava)(Pevná vazba)

From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow, comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family history was shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents' stories didn't match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin's quest to understand her Chinese American family's story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building where generations of both sides of her family lived. Breaking the silence surrounding her family's past meant first confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882--the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring
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