America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History The Trump Administration’s immigration policies are part of the shameful legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which ushered in a new, discriminatory governing framework for U.S. n February 28, 1882, Senator ...
Gum Shan . Gold Mountain. That was what the people in Guangdong Province called the faraway land where the native population had red hair and blue eyes, and it was rumored that gold nuggets could be plucked from the ground. According to an account in the San Francisco Chronicle , a merc ...
Tarred as a “coolie race,” the Chinese were cast as a threat to free white labor. Illustration by Mojo Wang U ntil the middle of the nineteenth century, settlement of America’s western frontier generally reached no farther than the Great Plains. The verdant land that Spanish conqu ...
Los Angeles, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, was an isolated and rough-hewn town, known for its lawlessness and disorder. A small population of Chinese immigrants from Guangdong Province made their way there, working as laundrymen, or as household cooks and servants; some leased sma ...
Cultural Comment The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation By October 26, 2016 n June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven-year-old working as an industrial draftsman at an engineering firm, was out with his friends at the Fancy Pants stri ...
https://voteview.com/ http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/makingmodernus/exhibits/show/chineseexclusionact1882/item/482 http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/makingmodernus/exhibits/show/chineseexclusionact1882/item/484 The bill was passed by the house on April 17, 1882.
The town of Downieville, California, situated at a fork of the Yuba River, about seventy-five miles northeast of Sacramento, began as one of the gold rush’s earliest mining camps. It quickly became a hub for miners in the region—a place where they could restock their provisions and find amusement ...
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