1910 to 1911

Orleans, Louisiana

Migration/Transportation, Immigration, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Race Relations, New Orleans, China

When Americans think of Chinatown, they rarely associate it with New Orleans, but at the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the only southern city with a population of Chinese immigrants significant enough to constitute a Chinatown. Like other immigrants in America, the Chinese in New Orleans had to balance the ongoing connections and relationships back home with the opportunities presented...