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

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Author / Creator:	Gyory, Andrew, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1998] ©1998
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century. Chinese Americans -- California -- History -- 19th century. Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century. Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Labor policy -- California -- History -- 19th century. Chinese Americans. Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Emigration and immigration. Labor policy. Race relations. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. California -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Race relations. California -- Race relations. California. United States. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11112034

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Varying Form of Title:	Race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
ISBN:	080786675X 9780807866757 0807824321 0807847399 9780807824320 9780807847398
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Gyory, Andrew. Closing the gate. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998 0807824321

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