Closing the Gate (eBook)

Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

Andrew Gyory (Autor)

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2000
368 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6675-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically allChinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federallaw that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of raceor nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of openimmigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for futurerestrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s andagainst Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, AndrewGyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politicsduring Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directlyconfront such divisive problems as class conflict, economicdepression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicianssought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrialcrisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers'demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, theyclaimed instead that working people would be better off if therewere no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyoryargues, national politicians--not California, not organizedlabor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motiveforce behind the era's most racist legislation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2000
• Zusatzinfo: 31 illus., appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolitionists • Adolph Strasser • AFL • Alexander Saxton • American History • Angell Treaty • anti-Chinese movement • Asian Americans • Burlingame Treaty • California • Chester Arthur • China • Chinese Exclusion Act • chinese immigration • Civil Rights Act • Civil War • coolies • David Roediger • democratic party • Denis Kearney • Foran Act • Gilded Age • Greenback-Labor Party • Immigrants • imported contract labor • James Blaine • James Garfield • Knights of Labor • Knights of St. Crispin • National Labor Union • organized labor • presidential election of 1876 • presidential election of 1880 • Race • Racism • reconstruction • Republican Party • Rutherford B. Hayes • Samuel Gompers • San Francisco • Unemployment • Unions • U. S. China relations • Wendell Phillips • Working Class • Workingmen's Party of California
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6675-X / 080786675X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6675-7 / 9780807866757