| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
At America's gates/ Erika Lee. |
| Reminder of title: |
Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 / |
| Author: |
Lee, Erika. |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
331 p. :ill.24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- PART I: CLOSING THE GATES: The Chinese are coming: how can we stop them? : Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping -- The keepers of the gate: U.S. immigration officials and Chinese exclusion -- PART II: AT AMERICA'S GATES: Exclusion Acts: Race, class, gender, and citizenship in the enforcement of the exclusion laws -- One hundred kinds of oppressive laws: the Chinese response to American exclusion -- PART III: CRACKS IN THE GATE: Enforcing the borders: Chinese exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders -- The crooked path: Chinese illegal immigration and its consequences -- PART IV: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACIES OF EXCLUSION: In the shadow of exclusion: The impact of exclusion on the Chinese in America -- EPILOGUE: Echoes of exclusion in the late Twentieth Century -- AFTERWORD: Following September 11, 2001. |
| Subject: |
Chinese Americans - Legal status, laws, etc. - |
| Subject: |
China - Emigration and immigration - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=103999An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0807863130 (electronic bk.) |