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Strangers in the land exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America

Strangers in the land exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America

Luo, Michael, author.
Large Print 2025

"From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act-a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remained in effect for more than fifty years--Justice Stephen Johnson Field characterized the Chinese as a people "residing apart by themselves." They were...

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Chinese United States History
Chinese Americans History
United States Emigration and immigration History
United States Ethnic relations
United States. Chinese Exclusion Act
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ISBN:
9798217070114
Edition:
First large print edition
Description:
xii, 890 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
large print
Notes:
Simultaneously published in hardcover: New York : Doubleday, 2025
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Gold Mountain
Indian, Negro, or Chinaman
The Great Army and the Iron Road
Colorblind
Rope! More rope!
The cauldron
Lewd and immoral purposes
Order of Caucasians
The Chinese must go!
The mission
The Chinese question
Beyond debate
The gatekeepers
Transformations
Wipe out the plague spots
White men, fall in
Driven out
Contagion
No return
The resistance
Native sons
Ruin and rebirth
The station
Becoming Chinese American
Confession
Control Number:
3359049
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