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Article: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2005
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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. By Erika Lee (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 331 pp. $55.00 Cloth $19.95 Paper).
Historians have long been fascinated by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which marked the first--but by no means the last--time in U.S. history that immigration was limited on the basis of race and class. Political historians, who were the first to explore the topic, focused on the legislative strategies and racial ideologies that enabled the passage of the 1882 law and its several successors. Asian American historians called attention to the chilling effects exclusion policy had on ...