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Author:
Hong, Jane H., author.
Title:
Opening the gates to Asia : a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion / Jane H. Hong.
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
United States--History--Government policy--History--20th century.
Asians--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Asian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Asia--History--History--20th century.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
Asians--Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Asia.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion -- Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal -- Manila prepares for the future: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine independence -- Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter act of 1952 -- Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns in the civil rights era.
ISBN:
1469653362
9781469653365
1469653354
9781469653358
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1096229703
LCCN:
2019011077
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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