Chinese immigrants and American law / edited with introductions by Charles McClain.
| Uniform Title: | Asian Americans and the law ;
v. 1. |
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| Other Authors: | |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Garland Pub.,
1994.
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| Series: | Asian Americans and the law ;
v. 1. |
| Subjects: | |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The exclusion of Chinese women, 1870-1943 / Sucheng Chan
- A nineteenth-century "habeas corpus mill": the Chinese before the federal courts in California / Christian G. Fritz
- Testimonial exclusion because of race: a chapter in the history of intolerance in California / J.A.C. Grant
- Politics of Chinese exclusion: legislative-executive conflict 1876-1882 / Shirley Hune
- Business and reform: the American Asiatic Association and the exclusion laws, 1905-1907 / James J. Lorence
- The Chinese contribution to the development of American law / Charles J. McClain and Laurene Wu McClain
- The Chinese struggle for civil rights in nineteenth-century America: the first phase, 1850-1870 / Charles J. McClain, Jr.
- The Chinese struggle for civil rights in nineteenth-century America: the unusual case of Baldwin v. Franks / Charles J. McClain, Jr.
- In re Lee Sing: the first residential-segregation case / Charles J. McClain
- Matthew Deady and the federal judicial response to racism in the early West / Ralph James Mooney
- Forbidden families: emigration experiences of Chinese women under the Page law, 1875-1882 / George Anthony Peffer
- Judge Lorenzo Sawyer and the Chinese: civil rights decisions in the Ninth Circuit / Linda C.A. Przybyszewski
- Captives of law: judicial enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws, 1891-1905 / Lucy Salyer
- California anti-Chinese legislation and the federal courts: a study in federal relations / Elmer C. Sandmeyer
- Lau v. Nichols: history of a struggle for equal and quality education / L. Ling-chi Wang
- The Chinese and the courts in the Pacific Northwest: justice denied? / John R. Wunder
- Chinese in trouble: criminal law and race on the trans-Mississippi West frontier / John R. Wunder.