At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

Erika Lee

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but w...

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