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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
At America's Gates Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era 18821943
Author: Erika Lee
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807827758
ISBN-10: 0807827754
Publication Date: 5/19/2003
Pages: 352
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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