The Chinese Must Go : : Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America /

The Chinese Must Go : : Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America / / Beth Lew-Williams.

The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Lew-Williams, Beth,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 15 halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Violence of Exclusion
  • PART 1. Restriction
  • The Chinese Question
  • Experiments in Restriction
  • Part 2. Violence
  • The Banished
  • The People
  • The Loyal
  • Part 3. Exclusion
  • The Exclusion Consensus
  • Afterlives Under Exclusion
  • Epilogue. The Modern American Alien
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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