02617cam a2200349 4500 568989224 TxAuBib 20220702120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807863138 0807863130 074fd25d-2b35-43fe-8e27-57be364d39a6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3343740 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lee, Erika. At America's Gates [Libby eBook] : Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4598kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 4598kB. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Chinese American. Race relations. Immigration. HTML:With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.<br /> <i>At America's Gates</i> is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before.<br /> Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources—including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters—Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations. Nonfiction. Politics. History. Law. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=074fd25d-2b35-43fe-8e27-57be364d39a6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=074fd25d-2b35-43fe-8e27-57be364d39a6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)