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Chinatown: Immigrants in America

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

November 1, 1976

59m

Documentary

Overview

Produced by DCTV in response to what its makers saw as distorted media portrayals of New York City’s Chinatown, "Chinatown: Immigrants in America" (1976) offers an unvarnished portrait of an immigrant community confronting poverty, labor exploitation, and cultural displacement. Directed by Jon Alpert and Yoko Maruyama, the film documents restaurant, garment, and service workers enduring low wages and unsafe conditions while struggling to build lives in America.

Directed by

Jon Alpert, Yoko Maruyama, Keiko Tsuno

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