John Doe Chinaman : a forgotten history of Chinese life under American racial law
A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West -- and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination. Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labour. Over the next seventy years, officials in California, Oregon, Washington, and o...