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 and 188...

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Main Author: Lew-Williams, Beth (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:349 pages ; 25 cm
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505 0 |a Introduction: The violence of exclusion -- Part I. Restriction: The Chinese question -- Experiments in restriction -- Part II. Violence: The banished -- The people -- The loyal -- Part III. Exclusion: The exclusion consensus -- Afterlives under exclusion -- Epilogue: The modern American alien. 
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