In search of equality : the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America /
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| Author / Creator: | McClain, Charles J. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1994. |
| Description: | x, 385 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1570924 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. The Beginnings of Discrimination and the First Chinese Responses. 1. California's First Anti-Chinese Laws. 2. Test Cases in the 1870s
- Pt. II. The Decade of the 1880s: Seeking the Equal Protection of the Laws. 3. The California Constitutional Contention and Its Aftermath. 4. The Laundry Litigation of the 1880s. 5. The Struggle for Access to the Schools
- Pt. III. The Decade of the 1880s: Court Contests with the Federal Government. 6. Federal Exclusion Act Litigation: The First Phase. 7. Seeking Federal Protection against Mob Violence: The Unusual Case of Baldwin v. Franks. 8. Federal Exclusion Act Litigation: The Second Phase
- Pt. IV. Century's End: Last Episodes of Sinophobia. 9. Challenging Residential Segregation: The Case of In re Lee Sing. 10. Medicine, Race, and the Law: The Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900.