Becoming American the Chinese experience [Volume 3] No turning back
- Date
2003
- Summary
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In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this program begins with the new immigration laws of 1965, which was a turning point for the Chinese in America and allowed a new wave of immigrants to enter the country. Provides information about discrimination against Chinese immigrants. Presents portraits of the new Chinese Americans who face a struggle common to many immigrants: to reconcile some losses of their old culture in order to embrace their adopted American one.
- Contributor
Moyers, Bill D.
- Publishers
Public Affairs Television (Firm); Thomas Lennon Films (Firm); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
- Subjects
Personal and Family Lives; Asian Studies; China; Civil Rights, Discrimination; Chinese United States History 20th century; Chinese Americans History 20th century; Chinese Americans Legal status, laws, etc; Emigration and immigration law United States History 20th century; Chinese Americans Cultural assimilation; Chinese Americans Social conditions 20th century; United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century; United States Race relations
- Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
88 minutes; color
- Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-090327; Fedora 2 PID: umd:2094; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/1164; Catalog Key: alephsys003064173; OCLC: ocm52941915
Access Restrictions
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