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Alien Nation
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
Andrew R. Graybill and Benjamin H. Johnson, editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sarah Carter
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Paul Mapp
Cynthia Radding
Samuel Truett
The study of borderlandsplaces where different peoples meet and no one polity reigns supremeis undergoing a renaissance. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History publishes works from both established and emerging scholars that examine borderlands from the precontact era to the present. The series explores contested boundaries and the intercultural dynamics surrounding them and includes projects covering a wide range of time and space within North America and beyond, including both Atlantic and Pacific worlds.
Published with support provided by
THE WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
2014 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved. Designed by Michelle Coppedge Wallen. Set in Minion and TheSans by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003.
Cover illustration: Frederic Remington,
Chinese Immigrant Dying of Thirst in the Mohave Desert, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut. Used with permission of North Wind Picture Archives.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Young, Elliott, 1967
Alien nation : Chinese migration in the Americas from the coolie era through World War II /
Elliott Young.
pages cm. (The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4696-1296-6 (paperback : alkaline paper) ISBN 978-1-4696-1340-6 (ebook)
1. ChineseAmericaHistory19th century. 2. ChineseAmericaHistory20th century. 3. ImmigrantsAmericaHistory. 4. Foreign workers, ChineseAmericaHistory. 5. TransnationalismHistory. 6. Community lifeAmericaHistory. 7. EthnicityAmericaHistory. 8. ChinaEmigration and immigrationHistory. 9. AmericaEmigration and immigrationHistory. 10. AmericaRace relations. I. Title.
E29.C5Y68 2014
304.8951073dc23
2014017584
18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1
For
Reiko and Zulema
And for the alien, the border crosser,
the clandestino illegal
Of all the specific liberties which may come into our minds when we hear the word freedom, freedom of movement is historically the oldest and also the most elementary. Being free to depart for where we will is the prototypical gesture of being free, as limitation of freedom of movement has from time immemorial been the condition for enslavement. Freedom of movement is also the indispensable condition for action, and it is in action that men primarily experience freedom in the world.
Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (1967)
TABLE
Chinese Population in Mexico versus the United States according to National Census Data, 18901940 /
FIGURES
1. Chinese Arrivals in the Americas, 18401940 /
2. Chinese Population in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and Peru, 18471943 /
3. Chinese Entries and Chinese Transit Passengers to the United States, 19181930 /
4. Overseas Chinese Population Distribution in the Americas, 2012 /
ILLUSTRATIONS
Chinese migration to the Americas, mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /
Some of the clandestine Chinese migratory routes through Greater North America /
Exhibit K from Marcus Brauns report on Chinese smuggling from Mexico /
Coolie Disguised as a Mexican Peon to Be Smuggled into the United States /
Exhibit J from Marcus Brauns report on Chinese smuggling from Mexico /
Edgar Holden, Coolies Embarking /
Edgar Holden, The Interpreters /
Edgar Holden, Enraged Coolie and A Providential Mischance /
Edgar Holden, Firing down the Hatchway and Preserving the Peace /
Edgar Holden, A Vain Attempt and Chained to the Hatch /
Edgar Holden, The Writing in Blood /
Edgar Holden, On the Lower Deck /
Edgar Holden, Baraccoons at Macao /
Frederic Remington, Chinese Coolies Loading a Steamer at Havana /
Chinese Coolies Smuggled into the United States, Disguised as Mexicans, at Work on a Southern Farm /
Contract for a Chinese laborer hired in Macao to work in Cuba, 1867 /
Immigrant detention station, Quebec, Canada /
Chin Chung, 1902, 1911, 1912 /
And Still They Come! /
Buggy used for smuggling Chinese aliens across the Mexican border, 1921 /
The Back Door: The Wily Chinese Sneaking over the Northern Frontier /
And Now They Come as Spaniards /
Twelve-year-old Indo-Latino mestizo. Fourteen-year-old product of Chinese-Mexican mixture /
Anti-Chinese demonstrators of Guasave.... Demonstration of neighbors from Guasave and Verdura /
One of the most modern sausage factories /
The wedding night... and five years later /
Mexican Woman: If craziness or ignorance makes you a wife or mistress of a Chinese man,... take a dose of venom or stab yourself in the heart /
Oh wretched woman!... You thought you would enjoy a cheap life by giving yourself to a Chinese man /
Nice group of valiant women who walked the streets of the Naranjo station, showing their effective aversion against the yellow exploiter.... Multitude of demonstrators in Culican /
The terrible easily contagious maladies of the Orient /
The ambassador of the millennial Chinese sows agony and suffering in young America /
... And the vigilance of the green guards was the best evidence that the people supported the governments actions /
Bones in boxes in a Chinese cemetery in Havana, 2010 /
My paternal grandfather, Jack Cung, arrived in New York City in 1913 as a stowaway on a boat from Warsaw. He ran away from home hidden in a hay cart and made the journey across the Atlantic when he was just thirteen years old. My orphaned grandmother followed in 1923. As Jews from Lithuania, they turned their backs on the Old Country, which had never welcomed them, and spoke to their children in English; they used Yiddish and Polish to speak to each other. My mother arrived in New York City in 1963 from India to marry my father. She also turned her back on her native land, where women had few opportunities. It wasnt until a few years ago that she finally relented and became a U.S. citizen. The history of the stranger or the alien is close to me, and yet also far away, since I grew up enjoying all the benefits of citizenship and whiteness. But the price of becoming American was losing connections to distant homelands. May the aliens of the future not have to make that choice.
When I started this project in 2000, my daughter, Zulema, was just a year old; now she is in high school. Books mature more slowly than people. This project has taken me to Madrid; Havana; Mexico City; Washington, D.C.; and Victoria, B.C., and on the way I have accumulated many debts, far too many to fully acknowledge here.
I owe most to the Tepoztln Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, a weeklong seminar outside of Mexico City that my friend and comrade Pam Voekel and I started in 2004 as a crazy utopian alternative workshop/conference/summer camp. The conversations over the past decade in Tepoztln turned this book from a project about the Chinese in Cuba into a transnational history of Chinese migration in the Americas. Not only have the Tepoz folks provided me with my best ideas, but, just as important, they helped to build an intellectual home where many worlds fit and where I too can be a cabaret star for a night. I would like to especially acknowledge Jossianna Arroyo, Nicole Guidotti-Hernndez, Frank Guridy, David Kazanjian, Devi Mays, Ana Minian, Josie Saldaa, David Sartorius, Micol Seigel, and Julie Weise for their critical eyes and generous spirits. To the Tepoztln Collective, that ragtag band of outlaw academics, I raise my glass.
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