Dining And Resistance In Chinese Diaspora Archaeology: A Case Study Of Food Practices From The Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California
Author(s): Virginia S. Popper; J Ryan Kennedy; Maxine Chan
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Chinese immigrants to the United States of America in the second half of the 19th century encountered racial prejudice, discrimination, and violence. Activities such as cooking and eating were central to how Chinese people dealt with these challenges. We take a close look at the plant and animal remains from the Market Street Chinatown, a 19th-century Chinese community in San Jose, California, to examine how everyday practices reflect resistance to external conditions. Chinese immigrants creatively used food, combining traditional practices and new ingredients to form a new localized cuisine. These dining practices smoothed internal community differences and created community cohesion in the face of shared hardship.
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Dining And Resistance In Chinese Diaspora Archaeology: A Case Study Of Food Practices From The Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California. Virginia S. Popper, J Ryan Kennedy, Maxine Chan. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456832)
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Keywords
General
Archaeobotany and Zooarchaeology
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Chinese Diaspora Foodways
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Market Street Chinatown
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 361