Chinese Immigrants In America
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Author | : Erika Lee |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2004-01-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0807863130 |
Download At America's Gates Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates 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, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.
Author | : Kay Melchisedech Olson |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780736832892 |
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Discusses the reasons Chinese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes activities.
Author | : Najia Aarim-Heriot |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252027758 |
Download Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first detailed examination of the link between the Chinese question and the Negro problem in nineteenth-century America, this work forcefully and convincingly demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups during the same period. Najia Aarim-Heriot argues that previous studies on American Sinophobia have overemphasized the resentment labor organizations felt toward incoming Chinese workers. This focus has caused crucial elements of the discussion to be overlooked, especially the broader ways in which the growing nation sought to define and unify itself through the exclusion and oppression of nonwhite peoples. This book highlights striking similarities in the ways the Chinese and African American populations were disenfranchised during the mid-1800s, including nearly identical negative stereotypes, shrill rhetoric, and crippling exclusionary laws. traditionally studied, this book stands as a holistic examination of the causes and effects of American Sinophobia and the racialization of national immigration policies.
Author | : Kelley Hunsicker |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chinese Americans |
ISBN | : 1429613556 |
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It's 1850, and you are fleeing war and starvation in your homeland of China. You sell everything you have to go to a place in America called Gold Mountain, better known as California. Do you try to strike it rich in the gold mines of California? or ..., Will you seek your fortune in San Francisco's Chinatown? or ..., Will you work as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Author | : Georgina W.S. Lu |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1508181195 |
Download How Chinese Immigrants Made America Home Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chinese immigrants first reached the shores of California in the mid 1800s. Since then, they have made significant contributions to the American economy through their work in mines, on railroads, and on farms as they earned money to send home. However, many saw them as job-stealing freeloaders. They contributed to American culture too, even as discrimination forced them to build their own communities from the ground up. The Chinese American community had no choice but to take on these stereotypes in order to survive. Written by a Chinese immigrant, readers will discover that even the xenophobia that exists today can be defeated and one's culture celebrated in the United States.
Author | : Beth Lew-Williams |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674976010 |
Download The Chinese Must Go Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American "alien" in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780743202756 |
Download To America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history.
Author | : Iris Chang |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101126876 |
Download The Chinese in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws and anti-Asian violence, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.
Author | : Min Zhou |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1592138594 |
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A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.
Author | : Madeline Y. Hsu |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691176213 |
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Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans resulted from US policies that screened for those with the highest credentials in the most employable fields, enhancing American economic competitiveness. The earliest US immigration restrictions targeted Chinese people but exempted students as well as individuals who might extend America's influence in China. Western-educated Chinese such as Madame Chiang Kai-shek became symbols of the US impact on China, even as they patriotically advocated for China's modernization. World War II and the rise of communism transformed Chinese students abroad into refugees, and the Cold War magnified the importance of their talent and training. As a result, Congress legislated piecemeal legal measures to enable Chinese of good standing with professional skills to become citizens. Pressures mounted to reform American discriminatory immigration laws, culminating with the 1965 Immigration Act. Filled with narratives featuring such renowned Chinese immigrants as I. M. Pei, The Good Immigrants examines the shifts in immigration laws and perceptions of cultural traits that enabled Asians to remain in the United States as exemplary, productive Americans.