The Chinese Exclusion ACT and Angel Island by Judy Yung

The Chinese Exclusion ACT and Angel Island by Judy Yung

The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island will introduce students to a broader and more inclusive vision of U.S. immigration history and, ultimately, a better understanding of the world we live in. What is uniquely important about this book are the personal stories and viewpoints of proponents and opponents of the Chinese exclusion laws; of Chinese immigrants who posed as paper sons and paper daughters to evade the exclusion laws; and of immigration officials who held strong convictions about how the immigration laws should be enforced. The introduction provides students with an over-arching historical, socio-economic, and political context by which to understand the compilation of primary documents that follow. For the same reason, each document has its own headnote with background information about the author and comments on its historical significance. Further pedagogical aids include a Chronology, new Questions for Consideration, and a revised Selected Bibliography.

Judy Yung is professor emerita of American studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 and the author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9781319077860
ISBN 10	1319077862
Title	The Chinese Exclusion ACT and Angel Island
Author	Judy Yung
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Books
Year published	2018-09-28
Number of pages	208
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