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The Chinese must go : violence, exclusion, and the making of the alien in America /
In 1882, the United States launched an unprecedented experiment in federal border control--which promptly failed. The Chinese Must Go examines this formative moment when America's lackluster attempt to bar Chinese workers provoked a wave of anti-Chinese violence across the U.S. West. In 1885 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The violence of exclusion
- Part I. Restriction. The Chinese question ; Experiments in restriction
- Part II. Violence. The banished ; The people ; The loyal
- Part III. Exclusion. The exclusion consensus ; Afterlives under exclusion
- Epilogue: The modern American alien
- Appendix A. Sites of anti-Chinese expulsions and attempted expulsions, 1885-1887
- Appendix B. Chinese immigration to the United States, 1850-1904.