Episode#37 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
DIRECT LINK TO CLASS NOTES: Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America -Is America a haven for the poor and oppressed or guided by fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation?
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: The Chinese Exclusion Act
SOURCE CITATION: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," Bill of Rights Institute. https://cnx.org/contents/NgBFhmUc%4013.2%3ALKzu_mbq%406/9-15-%F0%9F%93%8D-The-Chinese-Exclusion-Act
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University of California. “Chinese Exclusion Act.” Calisphere. https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/17/chinese-exclusion-act/
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Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
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