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At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Erika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
- Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History.
- China.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Devoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, tHIS text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants.
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Introduction; Part I. Closing the Gates; 1. The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?: Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping; 2. The Keepers of the Gate: U.S. Immigration Officials and Chinese Exclusion; Part II. At America's Gates; 3. Exclusion Acts: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in the Enforcement of the Exclusion Laws; 4. One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws: The Chinese Response to American Exclusion; Part III. Cracks in the Gate; 5. Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borders
- 6. The Crooked Path: Chinese Illegal Immigration and its ConsequencesPart IV. The Consequences and Legacies of Exclusion; 7. In the Shadow of Exclusion: The Impact of Exclusion on the Chinese in America; Epilogue: Echoes of Exclusion in the Late Twentieth Century; Afterword: Following September 11, 2001; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E-F; G-I; J-L; M; N-P; Q-
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890873095
- 9780807863138
- 0807863130
- OCLC:
- 476237005
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