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Two faces of exclusion : the untold history of anti-Asian racism in the United States /

From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the US has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus, it was a subject of fierc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kurashige, Lon, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : racism and the making of a Pacific nation
  • Before the storm : race for commercial empire, 1846-1876
  • First downpour : Chinese immigrants and gilded age politics, 1876-1882
  • Eye of the storm : the laboring of exclusion, 1882-1904
  • Rising tide of fear : white and yellow perils, 1904-1919
  • Flood control : nationalism, internationalism, and Japanese exclusion, 1919-1924
  • Silver lining : new deals for Asian Americans, 1924-1941
  • Winds of war : internment and the great transformation, 1941-1952
  • After the storm : debating Asian Americans in the egalitarian era
  • Conclusion : why remember the exclusion debate?