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Wait, so the "white middle-class population" complained when Chinatown was quarantined?
by Ericson2314 8y ago
Wait, so the "white middle-class population" complained when Chinatown was quarantined?
- rflrob 8y agoI haven’t read the book, but maybe Chinatown was a source of cheap domestic labor and services?
- JamilD 8y agoThe article implies so: > They quarantined Chinatown, preventing any movement of food in, or of its inhabitants — many of them cleaners, cooks and labourers — out. […] Outside Chinatown, the middle-class white population was outraged by the disruption.
- caprese 8y ago“labourers” is a euphamism for prostitutes Make sense yet?