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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Immigration law & policy in the U.S.
UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |