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At America's gates [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / / Erika Lee



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Autore: Lee Erika Visualizza persona
Titolo: At America's gates [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / / Erika Lee Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
Disciplina: 325/.251073
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration History
China Emigration and immigration History
United States Emigration and immigration Government policy
United States Race relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Notes; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E-F; G-I; J-L; M; N-P; Q-
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: At America's gates  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-6313-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455508203321
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