...Heidi Tinsman Abstract This essay interprets Chilean accounts of a loyalty oath by Chinese coolies to the Chilean army during the War of the Pacific against a broader social history of Chinese agrarian resistance in Peru and military experience in China. The essay argues that masculinity and labor...

...Melina Pappademos The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba . By Yun Lisa . Asian American History and Culture . Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press , 2008 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. xxiii, 312 pp . Copyright 2011 by Duke...

...Kathleen López The Chinese in Mexico, 1882–1940 . By Romero Robert Chao . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 254 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews General...

...Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 . By Camacho Julia María Schiavone . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 226 pp. Cloth...

...Kif Augustine-Adams Abstract Sonoran women who organized anti-Chinese auxiliaries in the immediate postrevolutionary years participated in Mexican women's movement into the public sphere from a more constrained role in the private spaces of home and church. While a particular ideal of womanhood...

...Robert Chao Romero Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Chinese Cubans is now the standard text on the history of the Chinese in Cuba. Utilizing a transnational and hemispheric approach, Kathleen López examines the history of Chinese immigration to Cuba from 1847 to the present...

...Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II . By Young Elliott . David J. Weber Series in the New Borderland History . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography...

...Benjamin Bryce Abstract This article examines the history of South Asian immigration to Argentina before the First World War. The arrival of a relatively small group of Sikh laborers in 1912, alongside other Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the preceding decade, sparked a huge reaction from...

...Julia María Schiavone Camacho Diásporas chinas a las Américas is an excellent volume on Chinese migration in the hemisphere. The prose is clear and the book is well organized. It moves flawlessly between the local, the regional, and the transnational. Chang-Rodríguez achieves his broader goals...

... University Press 2016 Another fascinating episode illustrates the transimperial negotiations over justice and power. The subprefect of Qianshan (China) wielded jurisdiction over Portuguese Macau. The Chinese magistrate eyed the natives there who converted to Catholicism as a threat to the Middle Kingdom...

... Mexican women and men of African or Chinese heritage. Even though these marriages were not quantitatively important, the few of them that were celebrated allow Acosta to challenge the idea that ethnic background was the main determinant in regional marriages. To the contrary, Acosta's research shows that...

... race to confound the law, as some Chinese men did to pass as Mexicans and be allowed to cross into the United States despite the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Lim's ability to create such a richly textured account, despite the collusion of present-day archives with historical policy to erase her subjects...

... local circumstances and the interplay between different levels of government and private interests. For the same time frame in Sonora in northwestern Mexico, Kif Augustine-Adams finds a starkly different situation for Chinese immigrants and Mexicans of Chinese origin. In the 1930 national census...

... history.1 In a previous study, I suggested that the economies of nineteenth-century Mexico and China were linked in what I termed a Sino-Mexican symbiosis in which Mexican miners seemed to coin silver in response to Chinese demand for specie.2...

... immigrants, who by the 1930s dominated Lima's cheap restaurants and whose Peruvian Chinese “chifa” food elites considered a source of disease and malnutrition (pp. 166, 173). Government restaurants were designed not just to undercut labor militancy and leftist support but also to “improve” workers by giving...

... wharf. Chileans joined Mexican, Chinese, and African American newcomers in the city's bustling “Spanishtown” and created their own “Little Chile” neighborhood. Chilean miners—most of whom labored on indentured contracts for moneyed Chileans—introduced new excavation methods and were frequently the...

... more diverse than just the lucrative commercial exchange of Mexican silver for Chinese silk and porcelain as well as other Asian luxuries. 5 Along with merchants, missionaries, bureaucrats, clergy, and multiethnic ships' crews, Mexican recruits and convicts created and maintained cross-cultural...