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Article: Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.(Review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 354. $49.95.)
This study is an attempt to challenge the validity of both the California and national-racist-consensus theses, which have mainly framed the scholarly debate on the causation for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Neither California and its working-class people, nor a racialized image of the Chinese decisively generated the clamor for exclusionary laws. While not necessarily rejecting either as having played a role in fomenting nationwide dissatisfaction with the presence of Chinese immigrant labor, ...