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Article: The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West.(Book review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
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- September 22, 2007
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THE OPIUM DEBATE AND CHINESE EXCLUSION LAWS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST by Diana Ahmad
University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2007. Notes, bibliography, index. 132 pages. $34.95 cloth.
As its title clearly indicates, The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West is centered on a topic that has not previously been given just consideration. Divided into five sections, the book provides only cursory information on Chinese immigration and community, but the text shines in its overview of the growing frenzy over substance abuse, of racial profiling, and of how the government built a case for addiction ...