The good immigrants : how the yellow peril became the model minority /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: | Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©2015. |
Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents:
- Gateways and gates in American immigration history
- "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient": student exceptions to the racial bar against Chinese, 1872-1925
- The China Institute in America: advocating for China through educational exchange, 1926-1937
- "A pressing problem of interracial justice": repealing Chinese exclusion, 1937-1943
- The wartime transformation of student visitors into refugee citizens, 1943-1955
- "The best type of Chinese": aid refugee Chinese intellectuals and symbolic refugee relief, 1952-1960
- "Economic and humanitarian": propaganda and the redemption of Chinese immigrants through refugee relief
- Symbiotic brain drains: immigration reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment act of 1965
- Conclusion: the American marketplace of brains.