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Chinese immigrants and American law edited with introductions by Charles McClain
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF4845.C47 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asian Americans and the law ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Chinese--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.
- Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 489 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 1994.
- Contents:
- The exclusion of Chinese women, 1870-1943 / Sucheng Chan
- A nineteenth-century "habeas corpus mill": the Chinese before the federal courts in California / Christian G. Fritz
- Testimonial exclusion because of race: a chapter in the history of intolerance in California / J.A.C. Grant
- Politics of Chinese exclusion: legislative-executive conflict 1876-1882 / Shirley Hune
- Business and reform: the American Asiatic Association and the exclusion laws, 1905-1907 / James J. Lorence
- The Chinese contribution to the development of American law / Charles J. McClain and Laurene Wu McClain
- The Chinese struggle for civil rights in nineteenth-century America: the first phase, 1850-1870 / Charles J. McClain, Jr.
- The Chinese struggle for civil rights in nineteenth-century America: the unusual case of Baldwin v. Franks / Charles J. McClain, Jr.
- In re Lee Sing: the first residential-segregation case / Charles J. McClain
- Matthew Deady and the federal judicial response to racism in the early West / Ralph James Mooney
- Forbidden families: emigration experiences of Chinese women under the Page law, 1875-1882 / George Anthony Peffer
- Judge Lorenzo Sawyer and the Chinese: civil rights decisions in the Ninth Circuit / Linda C.A. Przybyszewski
- Captives of law: judicial enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws, 1891-1905 / Lucy Salyer
- California anti-Chinese legislation and the federal courts: a study in federal relations / Elmer C. Sandmeyer
- Lau v. Nichols: history of a struggle for equal and quality education / L. Ling-chi Wang
- The Chinese and the courts in the Pacific Northwest: justice denied? / John R. Wunder
- Chinese in trouble: criminal law and race on the trans-Mississippi West frontier / John R. Wunder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-489).
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0815318499 (acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 30893873
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