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UNINA9910824940303321 |
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Autore |
Lee Erika |
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Titolo |
At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / / Erika Lee |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
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979-88-908730-9-5 |
0-8078-6313-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
United States Emigration and immigration History |
China Emigration and immigration History |
United States Emigration and immigration Government policy |
United States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Introduction; Part I. Closing the Gates; 1. The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?: Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping; 2. The Keepers of the Gate: U.S. Immigration Officials and Chinese Exclusion; Part II. At America's Gates; 3. Exclusion Acts: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in the Enforcement of the Exclusion Laws; 4. One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws: The Chinese Response to American Exclusion; Part III. Cracks in the Gate; 5. Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borders |
6. The Crooked Path: Chinese Illegal Immigration and its ConsequencesPart IV. The Consequences and Legacies of Exclusion; 7. 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; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; |
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