The Chinese must go : violence, exclusion, and the making of the alien in America / Beth Lew-Williams.
In 1882, the United States launched an unprecedented experiment in federal border control--which promptly failed. The Chinese Must Go examines this formative moment when America's lackluster attempt to bar Chinese workers provoked a wave of anti-Chinese violence across the U.S. West. In 1885 an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018. ©2018. |
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Skillman Lower Level
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E184.C5 L564 2018 |
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