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  1. New York City cartmen, 1667-1850

    Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
    New York : New York University Press, 1986.

  2. Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863

    Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.

    Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863.In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries. Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He pays particular attention to the black religious experience in all its complexity and to the vibrant slave culture that was shaped on the streets and in the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.

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  3. Anna May Wong : from laundryman's daughter to Hollywood legend

    Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
    1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

    Anna May Wong is undoubtedly, one of the most well-known and most popular Chinese-American actresses ever to have graced the silver screen. Between 1919 and 1960, she starred in over 50 movies. She shared equal billing with Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Marlene Dietrich and Werner Oland. Her life, though, is almost the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through assimilation into American culture. She was born in Los Angeles in 1905 and was the second daughter of six children born to a laundryman and his wife. Her life in Los Angeles fuelled her fascination with Hollywood and in 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, "The Red Lantern". Her most famous film roles were in "Thief of Baghdad", "Old San Francisco" and, most of all, "Shanghai Express" opposite La Dietrich. Discrimination against Asians continued, however, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth", she was passed over for the role that was ultimately given to Luise Rainer. Apparently, Wong was "too Asian" for the role.

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