03666nam 2200709 a 450 991045550820332120200520144314.00-8078-6313-0(CKB)111087027918652(EBL)413340(OCoLC)476237005(SSID)ssj0000107029(PQKBManifestationID)11128719(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107029(PQKBWorkID)10006505(PQKB)10305754(MiAaPQ)EBC413340(Au-PeEL)EBL413340(CaPaEBR)ebr10202645(CaONFJC)MIL930280(OCoLC)808774539(EXLCZ)9911108702791865220020819d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt America's gates[electronic resource] Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 /Erika LeeChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5448-4 0-8078-2775-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.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 Borders6. 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; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E-F; G-I; J-L; M; N-P; Q-Devoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, tHIS text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants.Chinese AmericansSocial conditions19th centuryChinese AmericansSocial conditions20th centuryChinese AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistoryImmigrantsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryImmigrantsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistoryChinaEmigration and immigrationHistoryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyUnited StatesRace relationsElectronic books.Chinese AmericansSocial conditionsChinese AmericansSocial conditionsChinese AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.History.ImmigrantsHistoryImmigrantsHistory325/.251073Lee Erika824999MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455508203321At America's gates2035091UNINA