Visualizing Chinese Immigrants in the<i>U.S. Statistical Atlases</i>: A Case Study in Charting and Mapping the Other(s)

Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2020

Visualizing Chinese Immigrants in the<i>U.S. Statistical Atlases</i>: A Case Study in Charting and Mapping the Other(s)

Li Li Elon University

Abstract

This study examines the visual representation of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. Statistical Atlases from 1874 to1925. Compilers of the Atlases used a variety of visual strategies to facilitate rhetorical inclusion and exclusion, and by creating particular visual emphasis, constructed Chinese immigrants as being alienated, racialized, and low in the ethnic hierarchy. The visual constructs of the Chinese population reflected and reshaped the state’s policy of immigration restriction in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2020-01-02
DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2019.1690695
Open Access: Closed
Topics: qualitative research quantitative research

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