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| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Closing the Gates | 19 |
| Ch. 1 | The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | The Keepers of the Gate: U.S. Immigration Officials and Chinese Exclusion | 47 |
| Pt. II | At America's Gates | 75 |
| Ch. 3 | Exclusion Acts: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in the Enforcement of the Exclusion Laws | 77 |
| Ch. 4 | One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws: The Chinese Response to American Exclusion | 111 |
| Pt. III | Cracks in the Gate | 147 |
| Ch. 5 | Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borders | 151 |
| Ch. 6 | The Crooked Path: Chinese Illegal Immigration and Its Consequences | 189 |
| Pt. IV | The Consequences and Legacies of Exclusion | 221 |
| Ch. 7 | In the Shadow of Exclusion: The Impact of Exclusion on the Chinese in America | 223 |
| Epilogue: Echoes of Exclusion in the Late Twentieth Century | 245 | |
| Afterword: Following September 11, 2001 | 253 | |
| Notes | 257 | |
| Bibliography | 295 | |
| Acknowledgments | 311 | |
| Index | 315 |
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Jack Parrish
reviewed At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 on June 28, 2016
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
A very through look into Chinese immigration during the Exclusion period and how anti-Chinese legislation set the blueprints for future immigration law. This is an academic book, though, with copious citations and reads dry for a layperson (I suggest Dr. Lee's more recent The Making of Asian America: A History for similar history but across a wider span of time and broader populations).
This was published in 2003, though, so parallels to anti-brown people sentiment post- 9/11 are only addressed in the epilogue. The cyclical nature of history is very apparent throughout the rest of the book, though, so if anyone's been following the 2017 travel ban attempts I do wonder what the 21st century equivalent of a paper son will be (as of July 2017, the SC added having a 'bonafide relationship' to a family member as a requirement to avoid the ban which is eerily similar to the family tie loophole during exclusion).
Might post more comprehensive review later.
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