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˜Theœ Chinese Must Go Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

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˜Theœ Chinese Must Go

Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Verfasser: Lew-Williams, Beth
Erscheinungsort: Cambridge, MA
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: [2018]
Umfang: 1 online resource (360 pages)
ISBN: 9780674919907


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Titel: ˜Theœ Chinese Must Go
Untertitel: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Von: Beth Lew-Williams
Verfasser: Lew-Williams, Beth
Erscheinungsort: Cambridge, MA
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: [2018]
Erscheinungsjahr: © 2018
Umfang: 1 online resource (360 pages)
Details: 15 halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart, 4 tables
Bemerkung: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
Bemerkung: In English
ISBN: 9780674919907
Abstract: The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion produced the concept of the "alien" in modern America. The Chinese Must Go begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliens. Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 and made its first attempt to bar immigrants based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment in federal border control failed to slow Chinese migration, vigilantes attempted to take the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, U.S. policymakers redoubled their efforts to keep the Chinese out, overhauling U.S. immigration law and transforming diplomatic relations with China. By locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, Lew-Williams recasts the significance of Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today's immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman.
Volltext E-Book: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919907
DOI: 10.4159/9780674919907
Subject: Aliens History 19th century United States Border security History 19th century United States Chinese Violence against United States Chinese History 19th century United States Emigration and immigration law History 19th century United States Race discrimination History 19th century United States
Volltext : https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919907
B3Kat-ID: BV048363963
Aufnahme am: 20.07.2022