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Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act / Andrew Gyory.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1998]Copyright date: �1998Description: 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 080786675X
  • 9780807866757
Other title:
  • Race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Closing the gate.DDC classification:
  • 325.73/089/951 21
LOC classification:
  • E184.C5 G9 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s -- 2. To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869 -- 3. Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870 -- 4. All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875 -- 5. To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876 -- 6. Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878 -- 7. Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878 -- 8. Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879 -- 9. Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880 -- 10. No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880 -- 11. Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882 -- 12. Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically allChinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federallaw that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of raceor nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of openimmigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for futurerestrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s andagainst Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, AndrewGyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politicsduring Reconstruction and the.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.

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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016).

Machine generated contents note: 1. Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s -- 2. To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869 -- 3. Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870 -- 4. All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875 -- 5. To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876 -- 6. Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878 -- 7. Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878 -- 8. Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879 -- 9. Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880 -- 10. No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880 -- 11. Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882 -- 12. Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically allChinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federallaw that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of raceor nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of openimmigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for futurerestrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s andagainst Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, AndrewGyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politicsduring Reconstruction and the.

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