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):

Asians--United States--History.

Asians.

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--History.

Asia.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the US has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus, it was a subject of fierce debate. This book examines the opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in America.

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 index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890848253

9781469629445

1469629445

9781469629452

1469629453

OCLC:

957998380