Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion ActThe 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 |
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Contents
The Very Recklessness of Statesmanship Explanations for Chinese Exclusion 1870s1990s | 3 |
To Fetch Men Wholesale Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 186os and the First Chinese Scare in 1869 | 17 |
Yanki vs Yankee Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870 | 39 |
All Sorts of Tricks Defining Importation 18711875 | 60 |
To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators The Presidential Campaign of 1876 | 76 |
The Reign of Terror to Come Uprising and Red Scare 18771878 | 92 |
An Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas Denis Kearney Comes East 1878 | 109 |
Rolling in the Dirt The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879 | 136 |
An Earthquake of Excitement California and the Exodus East 18791880 | 169 |
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| Title | Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory Contention; 7 |
| Author | Andrew Gyory |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0807847399, 9780807847398 |
| Length | 354 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 19th Century Political Science / General Social Science / Emigration & Immigration Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General |
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