The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition

The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans.


Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 18...