Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinaman, a Blondie confederate, even rationalizes theft: "We didn't use our badges as camouflage just to rob anyone we met who we felt like robbing. We took from drug dealers. The way I look at it, that money wasn't theirs anyway, and we needed it more than they did, or than the city did, which was who we were supposed to turn...
...place, we'd take some money to reimburse our informant payments," he says. "After a while," he recalls, "with so much dough sitting around, you just take more, and then you begin to get used to it." But not too used to it. "Unless you're completely nuts," says Chinaman, "you're careful. If you find 10 grand, say, you take only three or four. You can't raid a drug house and come back and not turn in some money. That'd be a sure...
...such points, Blondie had to finger his fellow officers. "A real cop would eat his gun before squealing" on other cops, says Blondie, but he did just that. As the driving force behind the corruption that brought down Five Squad, Blondie freely ratted on Chinaman and two others, and reluctantly on his sergeant, Schoolboy, as well. Impressed with the cooperation of Blondie and his confederates, the government urged leniency. In the future, the prosecutors argued, "other officers...may take their cue from the sentencings of cooperators." Unswayed, Federal Judge Robert Gawthrop slammed the cops with the maximum mandated...
...further illustrate her points, Kingston read passages from her books, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Chinaman and Tripmaster Monkey...
...Chin, naming was vitally important. Just as blacks had appropriated formerly derogatory terms--from "Negro" to "black" itself--as consciously chosen emblems of racial pride and identity, Chin tried to turn the racist label of "Chinaman" into one Chinese-Americans could claim as their own. Instead, hyphenation carried the day. But "Asian-American" only replicates Chin's dilemma: for it emphasizes the duality that plagues conceptions of Asian-American identity. The theme of most popular Asian-American literature has been the conflict of cultures--the alleged impossibility of reconciling Eastern and Western values, the stories of children caught between their...