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Subject(s)

• Racism—United States—History [Browse]
• Asian Americans—History [Browse]
• Asians—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History [Browse]
• United States—Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]
• Asia—Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]

Summary note

From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the US has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus, it was a subject of fierce debate. This book examines the opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in America.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Title from PDF title page (viewed 18 November 2016).

Contents

• Introduction : racism and the making of a Pacific nation
• Before the storm : race for commercial empire, 1846-1876
• First downpour : Chinese immigrants and gilded age politics, 1876-1882
• Eye of the storm : the laboring of exclusion, 1882-1904
• Rising tide of fear : white and yellow perils, 1904-1919
• Flood control : nationalism, internationalism, and Japanese exclusion, 1919-1924
• Silver lining : new deals for Asian Americans, 1924-1941
• Winds of war : internment and the great transformation, 1941-1952
• After the storm : debating Asian Americans in the egalitarian era
• Conclusion : why remember the exclusion debate?

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ISBN

• 9781469629452 ((electronic bk.))
• 1469629453 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781469629445 ((ebook))
• 1469629445 ((ebook))

OCLC

957998380

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