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The Chinese Must Go - Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Paperback)
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The Chinese Must Go - Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Paperback)
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Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize Winner of the Ellis W.
Hawley Prize Winner of the Sally and Ken Owens Award Winner of the
Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize Winner of the Caroline Bancroft
History Prize "A powerful argument about racial violence that could
not be more timely." -Richard White "A riveting, beautifully
written account...that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences.
A timely and important contribution to our understanding of
immigration and the border." -Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at
Dawn In 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming
Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific
Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese
immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration
policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the
concept of the "alien" in America. Our story begins in the 1850s,
before federal border control established strict divisions between
citizens and aliens-and long before Congress passed the Chinese
Restriction Act, the nation's first attempt to bar immigration
based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment failed
to slow Chinese migration, armed vigilante groups took the matter
into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence,
policymakers redoubled their efforts to seal the borders,
overhauling immigration law and transforming America's relationship
with China in the process. By tracing the idea of the alien back to
this violent era, Lew-Williams offers a troubling new origin story
of today's racialized border. "The Chinese Must Go shows how a
country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward
an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native
Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to
naturalize altogether...The stories of racist violence and
community shunning are brutal to read." -Rebecca Onion, Slate
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