Title At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations Series Online access: HeinOnLine HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice Contents Introduction -- PART I: 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 -- PART II: 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 -- PART III: 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 -- PART IV: 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 Summary 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 Gates is 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 "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record; online resource viewed September 8, 2016 Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2005 Subject Chinese Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century Chinese Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Chinese Americans -- Social conditions Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Immigrants Race relations Immigratie. Chinezen. Kines-amerikaner. Sociala förhållanden. Rasrelationer. a Invandrare. Chinese Americans -- California -- History. Chinese Americans -- United States -- History. Chinese Americans -- History. Chinese Americans -- Social conditions. Emigration and immigration law -- United States. Race relations. Auswanderung Einwanderung Chinese Americans -- Social conditions. Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. Immigrants -- United States -- History. Américains d'origine chinoise -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle. Immigrés -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle. Immigrés -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle. Américains d'origine chinoise -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle. Emigration et immigration -- Politique publique -- Etats-Unis -- 1900-1945. SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History China -- Emigration and immigration -- History United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject China United States United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century. China -- Emigration and immigration -- History. China USA United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Poetry. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History. United States -- Race relations -- History. États-Unis -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire. Chine -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire. Chinesen. Genre/Form History History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002013375 ISBN 0807863130 9780807863138

Other Titles Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943

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