Closing the Gate Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

Name: Closing the Gate Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
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ISBN: 9780807847398

ISBN-10: 0807847399

ISBN-13: 9780807847398

Edition: 1998

Authors: Andrew Gyory

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment,…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Contents


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s



To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869



Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870



All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875



To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876



The Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878



An Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878



Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879



An Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880



No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880



The Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882



A Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882


Appendix: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Figures



Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner



The Youngest Introducing the Oldest



Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee



William M. Stewart



The New Pandora's Box



Philip A. Roach



Aaron A. Sargent



The Progress of One of Kearney's Speeches



Up Hill Work for the California Drayman



Adolph Strasser



James G. Blaine



Will History Repeat Itself?



Kearney's Senatorial Restaurant



Hannibal Hamlin



The Chinese Question Would Be Settled if the Chinee, Chinee, Would Votee! Votee!! Votee!!!



The Demagogues' Triumph



California's New Constitution



Yung Wing



The Chinese Plague



Strikes and Their Results



The "Magnetic" Blaine



Where Both Platforms Agree



William M. Evarts



The Morey Letter



James B. Angell



George Frisbie Hoar



George F. Edmunds



Senator Edmunds's Greatest Effort



Joseph R. Hawley



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