Fredy González
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fredy González |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fredy |
| FAMILY NAME | González |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6008-714X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Secrecy to the Public Sphere
This essay reflects on how changing practices and knowledge repertoires of Chinese migrant associations in the Americas shaped translocal collective spheres in the asymmetric setting known as the Exclusion Era. In order to achieve this, we highlight certain aspects and layers of what Homi K. Bhabha has called "cultural translation," which, in our case, was advanced through the agency, ideas, and practices of individuals who organized in Chinese s…
The Chee Kung Tong
This article examines the development of the Cantonese sworn brotherhood, the Chee Kung Tong, in global perspective. By examining the broad thematic similarities between the chapters that developed around the world, this article argues that the Chee Kung Tong adapted the sworn brotherhood, an associational form long used in mainland China and Southeast Asia, into a flexible organization able to meet the needs of mobile and vulnerable Cantonese mi…
The Rise and Spread of the Hong Men Chee Kung Tong in the Cantonese Pacific and Beyond
Using sources in English, Spanish, and Chinese from across the Pacific Rim, this article uses a global scale to examine the Cantonese sworn brotherhood known as the Chee Kung Tong. Whereas in 1860 the organization was largely limited to the West Coast of North America, by the early twentieth century it spread to six continents and throughout the Pacific Rim. The article argues that the Chee Kung Tong, far from being simply a criminal organization…
Situ Meitang, Patriotic Overseas Chinese
The article recounts the transnational political activities of Situ Meitang, who led the Hongmen Chee Kung Tong in the Americas in support of the Nationalist government during the Second World War. At the end of the Chinese Civil War, he endorsed the People’s Republic of China and settled in Beijing. The article shows that current biographies of Situ ignore the complexity of his political ideas, including a desire for democracy in China and the e…
Paisanos Chinos
Threatened by the violence of the anti-Chinese campaigns, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China as a way to safeguard their presence in the country. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which these transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenged traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of the Second World War alongside Mexican neighbors, to carryin…
Paisanos Chinos
"Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China--both Nationalist and Communist--as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional noti…
Chinese Braceros? Chinese Mexican Workers in the United States during World War II
During World War II, several hundred Chinese Mexicans traveled north to the United States to work as cooks for the Threlkeld Commissary Company in a special exception to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Using archival sources as well as memoirs, this article traces the Chinese Mexican contribution to the Mexican Track Labor Program and the ways in which these workers became purveyors of Mexican culinary traditions in the United States.
Alien Nation
Elliott Young’s Alien Nation looks at two simultaneous processes fundamental to the history of Chinese immigration to the Americas. National governments throughout the Americas considered the Chinese as inassimilable and undesirable outsiders. At the same time, Chinese migrants established networks and cooperated across borders to evade migration controls and gain entry into the Americas.Relying on archival and published primary sources from seve…
Uprooting Community
Writing against a tendency to view the concentration of Japanese Mexicans in more sanguine terms than Japanese American internment, Selfa A. Chew demonstrates how forced relocation led to “the loss of freedom, property, and lives of Japanese immigrants and their Mexican spouses, children, and grandchildren” (p. 7). Using U.S. National Archives and Mexican Department of Political and Social Investigations files, Chew’s work illustrates how the Mex…
The Chee Kung Tong
This article examines the development of the Cantonese sworn brotherhood, the Chee Kung Tong, in global perspective. By examining the broad thematic similarities between the chapters that developed around the world, this article argues that the Chee Kung Tong adapted the sworn brotherhood, an associational form long used in mainland China and Southeast Asia, into a flexible organization able to meet the needs of mobile and vulnerable Cantonese mi…
The Rise and Spread of the Hong Men Chee Kung Tong in the Cantonese Pacific and Beyond
Using sources in English, Spanish, and Chinese from across the Pacific Rim, this article uses a global scale to examine the Cantonese sworn brotherhood known as the Chee Kung Tong. Whereas in 1860 the organization was largely limited to the West Coast of North America, by the early twentieth century it spread to six continents and throughout the Pacific Rim. The article argues that the Chee Kung Tong, far from being simply a criminal organization…
Uprooting Community
Writing against a tendency to view the concentration of Japanese Mexicans in more sanguine terms than Japanese American internment, Selfa A. Chew demonstrates how forced relocation led to “the loss of freedom, property, and lives of Japanese immigrants and their Mexican spouses, children, and grandchildren” (p. 7). Using U.S. National Archives and Mexican Department of Political and Social Investigations files, Chew’s work illustrates how the Mex…
Paisanos Chinos
Threatened by the violence of the anti-Chinese campaigns, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China as a way to safeguard their presence in the country. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which these transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenged traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of the Second World War alongside Mexican neighbors, to carryin…
Paisanos Chinos
"Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China--both Nationalist and Communist--as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional noti…
Chinese Braceros? Chinese Mexican Workers in the United States during World War II
During World War II, several hundred Chinese Mexicans traveled north to the United States to work as cooks for the Threlkeld Commissary Company in a special exception to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Using archival sources as well as memoirs, this article traces the Chinese Mexican contribution to the Mexican Track Labor Program and the ways in which these workers became purveyors of Mexican culinary traditions in the United States.
Alien Nation
Elliott Young’s Alien Nation looks at two simultaneous processes fundamental to the history of Chinese immigration to the Americas. National governments throughout the Americas considered the Chinese as inassimilable and undesirable outsiders. At the same time, Chinese migrants established networks and cooperated across borders to evade migration controls and gain entry into the Americas.Relying on archival and published primary sources from seve…
The Rise and Spread of the Hong Men Chee Kung Tong in the Cantonese Pacific and Beyond
Using sources in English, Spanish, and Chinese from across the Pacific Rim, this article uses a global scale to examine the Cantonese sworn brotherhood known as the Chee Kung Tong. Whereas in 1860 the organization was largely limited to the West Coast of North America, by the early twentieth century it spread to six continents and throughout the Pacific Rim. The article argues that the Chee Kung Tong, far from being simply a criminal organization…
Situ Meitang, Patriotic Overseas Chinese
The article recounts the transnational political activities of Situ Meitang, who led the Hongmen Chee Kung Tong in the Americas in support of the Nationalist government during the Second World War. At the end of the Chinese Civil War, he endorsed the People’s Republic of China and settled in Beijing. The article shows that current biographies of Situ ignore the complexity of his political ideas, including a desire for democracy in China and the e…
The Chee Kung Tong
This article examines the development of the Cantonese sworn brotherhood, the Chee Kung Tong, in global perspective. By examining the broad thematic similarities between the chapters that developed around the world, this article argues that the Chee Kung Tong adapted the sworn brotherhood, an associational form long used in mainland China and Southeast Asia, into a flexible organization able to meet the needs of mobile and vulnerable Cantonese mi…
From Secrecy to the Public Sphere
This essay reflects on how changing practices and knowledge repertoires of Chinese migrant associations in the Americas shaped translocal collective spheres in the asymmetric setting known as the Exclusion Era. In order to achieve this, we highlight certain aspects and layers of what Homi K. Bhabha has called "cultural translation," which, in our case, was advanced through the agency, ideas, and practices of individuals who organized in Chinese s…
Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)