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Author:

Lee, Erika.

Title:

At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Chinese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Chinese Americans--History.--History.
Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History.--History.
China--History.--History.
United States--Government policy.--Government policy.
United States--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- PART I: CLOSING THE GATES: The Chinese are coming: how can we stop them? : Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping -- The keepers of the gate: U.S. immigration officials and Chinese exclusion -- PART II: AT AMERICA'S GATES: Exclusion Acts: Race, class, gender, and citizenship in the enforcement of the exclusion laws -- One hundred kinds of oppressive laws: the Chinese response to American exclusion -- PART III: CRACKS IN THE GATE: Enforcing the borders: Chinese exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders -- The crooked path: Chinese illegal immigration and its consequences -- PART IV: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACIES OF EXCLUSION: 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.

ISBN:

9780807854488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807854484 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807827758 (alk. paper)
0807827754 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50560437

LCCN:

2002013375

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