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Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act /
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legisla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1998]
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| Colección: | Immigration law & policy in the U.S.
UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s
- 2. To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869
- 3. Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870
- 4. All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875
- 5. To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876
- 6. Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878
- 7. Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878
- 8. Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879
- 9. Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880
- 10. No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880
- 11. Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882
- 12. Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act.