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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kurashige, Lon, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Racism--United States--History.
• Racism.
• Emigration and immigration.
• History.
• Asians.
• United States.
• Asian Americans--History.
• Asian Americans.
• Asians--United States--History.
• United States--Race relations--History.
• Race relations.
• United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
• Asia--Emigration and immigration--History.
• Asia.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xx, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Contents:

• 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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781469629438
• 1469629437

OCLC:

945745221