Title Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act / Andrew Gyory

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1998] ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations Series HeinOnline immigration law & policy in the U.S HeinOnline UNC Press law publications HeinOnline civil rights and social justice Immigration law & policy in the U.S UNC Press law publications Civil rights and social justice Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s -- 2. To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869 -- 3. Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870 -- 4. All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875 -- 5. To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876 -- 6. Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878 -- 7. Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878 -- 8. Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879 -- 9. Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880 -- 10. No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880 -- 11. Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882 -- 12. Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) 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 Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016) Subject Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century Chinese Americans -- California -- History -- 19th century Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century Labor policy -- California -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Chinese Americans Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Emigration and immigration Labor policy Race relations Migratiebeleid. Chinezen. Rassendiscriminatie. Chinesen Einwanderung Recht Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Chinese Americans -- California -- History. Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century. Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- 19th century. Geschichte 1882-1914. SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century California -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 California -- Race relations Subject California United States USA United States -- Race relations -- History. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Law and legislation -- 19th century. California -- Emigration and immigration -- History. Chinesen. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 080786675X 9780807866757

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