Claiming America: constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era

Chinese American Transnationalism: The F

📁 Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America During the Exclusion Era (Asian American History & Cultu)

✍ Sucheng Chan 📂 Library 📅 2005 🌐 English

Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration

📁 At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

✍ Erika Lee 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 The University of North Carolina Press 🌐 English

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration

📁 At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

✍ Erika Lee 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese

African Americans During Reconstruction

📁 African Americans During Reconstruction (Slavery in the Americas)

✍ Richard Worth 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

Identity Construction among Chinese-Viet

📁 Identity Construction among Chinese-Vietnamese Americans : Being, Becoming, and Belonging

✍ Monica M. Trieu 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC 🌐 English

Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion,

📁 Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship (America and the Long 19th Century, 12)

✍ Edlie L. Wong 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 NYU Press 🌐 English

<p>The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as “coolieism.” From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court te