Article: Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82.

CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND RACIAL ANXIETY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1848-82

By Najia Aarim-Heriot (University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003, 291 pp., cloth, $39.95).

What factors led to the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act? Najia Aarim-Heriot's thought-provoking, well-argued study focuses upon American racial attitudes and practices, influenced by other aspects such as the driving force in the discriminatory federal legislation against the Chinese. By studying national newspapers and magazines, court cases, political parties, and congressional debates, she examines changing political attitudes regarding immigration in general, ...

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