At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

by Erika Lee

Book Overview

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.

At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854484
• ISBN13: 9780807854488
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"