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A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

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A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America
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In the history of the Chinese in America, the border has caught our attention and held it. Chinese migrants’ attempts to cross the border, and America’s attempts to stop them, is the story that historians have told and retold. But long before the Chinese faced the first exclusion laws, and long afterward as well, they endured a racial regime within America every day. This book is the history of that racial regime and the lives it touched.
Arriving on California’s shores in the 1850s, Chinese mig

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