Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later, she cofounded the Chinese American Service League (CASL) to help meet the needs of the city’s isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wong’s intimate account of her own life story through the CASL’s larger history, Blumberg-Kason follows the group from its origins to its emergence as a robust social network that connects Chinatown residents to everything from daycare to immigration services to culinary education. Blumberg-Kason also traces CASL activism on issues like fair housing and violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. At once intimate and broad in scope, When Friends Come from Afar uses one woman s life to illuminate a bedrock Chicago institution.
Susan Blumberg-Kason
When Friends Come From Afar [EPUB ebook]
The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League
When Friends Come From Afar [EPUB ebook]
The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780252047305 ● Publisher University of Illinois Press ● Published 2024 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 10006260 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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