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Article: Rooted in the Americanization zeal: the San Francisco International Institute, race, and settlement work, 1918-1939.(8H Paper)(International organization overview)
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- Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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The Chinese and Japanese come from the Asiatic zone ineligible to citizenship. This means that the impulse to serve them has never been rooted in the Americanization zeal which has played so large a part, spoken or unspoken, in the attitude of Americans toward other transplanted folk.
--Letter from Ethel Bird of the National Services Division of the YWCA to Mrs. Emily Price, Member of the Executive Board of the San Francisco International Institute, March 9, 1934
INTRODUCTION
This essay will explore how the work and philosophy of the International Institute, a settlement house located in downtown San Francisco, relates to the larger ...