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| Genre/Form: | History Poetry |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lee, Erika. At America's gates. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)607000464 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Erika Lee |
| ISBN: | 0807827754 9780807827758 0807854484 9780807854488 |
| OCLC Number: | 50560437 |
| Awards: | Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2005. |
| Description: | 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Erika Lee. |
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"Lee addresses a multiplicity of issues and deftly weaves together several themes that, in the past, had been treated separately." - Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Chinese exclusion and its consequences
This is "the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United...
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This is "the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a 'gatekeeping nation.' Immigrant identification, border enforcement, survaillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that has existed in the United States before." -- from the back cover.
Contents: PART I: CLOSING THE GATES: 1. The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?; 2. The Keepers of the Gate; PART II: AT AMERICA'S GATES: 3. Exclusion Acts; 4. One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws; PART III: CRACKS IN THE GATE: 5. Enforcing the Borders; 6. The Crooked Path; PART IV: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACIES OF EXCLUSION: 7. In the Shadow of Exclusion; Epilogue: Echoes of Exclusion in the Late Twentieth Century; and Afterword: Following September 11, 2001.
With tables, drawings, and photographs.
A copy of this book is held in the Governor Gary Locke Library, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, Washington State, USA.
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