Opening the gates to Asia : a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion /

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"Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hong, Jane H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Temas:
1900-1999
Asians > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Asian Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Asiatiques > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Asians > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History > 20th century.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Asie > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Asia.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion
  • Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal
  • Manila prepares for the future: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine independence
  • Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter act of 1952
  • Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns in the civil rights era.

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