
Ava Chin, "Mott Street - A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming"
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The Discriminatory Viewpoints of the Day
Many of the sources that you're describing are these official state documented sources. So it's difficult to use those kinds of sources and newspapers are certainly not much better especially when we're dealing with 19th century newspapers. I will say that for my Chinese language sources, I went back to our villages and I was able to get the genealogy documents. There were genealogies on three of the major families that I was researching. What was great about those is that they not just had names, sometimes dates, years of birth and years of death,. But sometimes I was lucky and they had narratives that came with them. And yeah, so a large part of it was English language sources, but
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