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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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?