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 | #1948740 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1998-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.93 x6.13l,1.29 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Blaming the Politicians|By Ken Buffum|In this well researched monograph, Andrew Gyory seeks to answer one question: Why did the United States pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? In the past, historians have clung to two arguments to explain the passage of this act; the California and national-racism theses. The former suggests that workers and politicians in California s| |"A fine book, well argued, well documented, and well written.|"Pacific Northwest Quarterly""

Gyory manages to provide an informative new study by combining extensive research with engaging prose.|"Choice"

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all
Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal
law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race
or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open
immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future
restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and
against Europeans in the 1920s.
Tracing the origins of...

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