At America's Gates Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

Name: At America's Gates Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
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ISBN: 9780807854488

ISBN-10: 0807854484

ISBN-13: 9780807854488

Edition: 2003

Authors: Erika Lee

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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gatesis the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/19/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Introduction



Closing the Gates



The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping



The Keepers of the Gate: U.S. Immigration Officials and Chinese Exclusion



At America's Gates



Exclusion Acts: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in the Enforcement of the Exclusion Laws



One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws: The Chinese Response to American Exclusion



Cracks in the Gate



Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borders



The Crooked Path: Chinese Illegal Immigration and Its Consequences



The Consequences and Legacies of Exclusion



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


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index