The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States

by David C Atkinson and David C. Atkinson

Book Overview

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469630273
• ISBN13: 9781469630274
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"