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A Land of Shadows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2018

JASON FRANCISCO
JASON FRANCISCO*
Affiliation:
Department of Film and Media Studies, Emory University. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This essay is the foreword to an artistic inquiry into immigrant Chinese life in rural nineteenth-century California – a communal life that was itinerant, vulnerable, preyed upon, resilient, and centrally important in the state's and the nation's history. The project integrates new photographs of the remnants of Chinese settlements in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Sacramento delta areas into a forgotten governmental account of Chinese immigrants, made by D. D. Beatty in Downieville, c.1894. The result is a remade book, part document, part poetic archaeology.

Type
Special Forum: Inhabiting Cultures
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 2018 , pp. 969 - 981
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2018 

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