The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai
28 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Biography, Chinese American, Nonfiction
When the local San Francisco public school denied Mamie Tape admission solely based on her Chinese heritage, her parents sued the city's Board of Education in what became the landmark 1885 case, Tape vs. Hurley. Mamie was seven years old, the American-born child of middle-class Chinese...