Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Contents:
Prologue : bigotry triumphant -- Free and white -- White, black . . . and gold -- Enter the Japanese -- Birthright -- Yellow peril -- Workers of the West unite -- Tremors -- Gentlemen . . . and ladies -- This land is (not) your land -- A home of one's own (children) -- The golden west -- The heart of an American -- What meets the eye -- Turning the soil -- Slamming the door -- Banzai and baseball -- Loyalty -- Fear and fiction -- An illusion of disloyalty -- No island paradise -- Infamy -- Four who refused -- A caricature of justice -- The courage to do what's right -- Shame.
Summary:
"Not White Enough is a legal and political history of anti-Asian bigotry, beginning with the California Gold Rush and ending with the infamous Supreme Court decision that upheld the imprisonment without trial of more than 100,000 innocent Americans on the spurious grounds of national security. The book demonstrates how law and politics bled into each other for decades to enable two-tiered justice, brushing aside Constitutional guarantees of equality under law. Not White Enough examines each of the key Supreme Court decisions-Wong Kim Ark, Ozawa, and Thind, for example-as expressions of political will and not simply jurisprudence. The author chronicles the political history of racism that made Japanese internment almost inevitable, including the key role San Francisco mayors James D. Phelan and Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and California attorney general Ulysses Webb played in instigating, for political convenience, some of the most egregious anti-Asian legislation"-- Provided by the publisher.
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