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Patterned Fluidity Of Chinese Ethnic Identity: Networks, Time, And Place, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang
Patterned Fluidity Of Chinese Ethnic Identity: Networks, Time, And Place, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences
This study tests the salience/prominence of Chinese ethnic identity by applying identity theory, social identity theory, and social network analysis. Using survey data of Chinese graduate students in two universities in the United States, I show how Chinese ethnic identity salience varies with the percentage of Chinese in an individual’s ego network revolving around him or her. In addition, among newcomers to the United States, as the percentage Chinese in ego networks increases, the decline of Chinese identity salience/prominence declines, but for old timers in the United States, as the percentage Chinese increases, the decline of Chinese identity salience/prominence is …
The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa
The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa
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This study is an effort to give an historical perspective on the Japanese living in the Puget Sound region up to 1940.