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Article: Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882. By Najia Aarim-Heriot. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 289. $39.95.)
In reexamining the conditions that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the author of this study addresses the "disconnect" between the perception of Chinese immigrants in the United States and the larger debates on race during the nineteenth century. Although most historians have discussed race relations in the nineteenth century in terms of "black" and "white," few have explored the conflation of Chinese immigrants and African Americans. Najia Aarim-Heriot examines ...
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