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Strangers in the land exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America

"From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act-a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remai...

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Main Author: Luo, Michael (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > History.
Chinese > United States > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Ethnic relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gold Mountain
  • Indian, Negro, or Chinaman
  • The Great Army and the Iron Road
  • Colorblind
  • Rope! More rope!
  • The cauldron
  • Lewd and immoral purposes
  • Order of caucasians
  • The Chinese must go!
  • The mission
  • The Chinese question
  • Beyond debate
  • The gatekeepers
  • Transformations
  • Wipe out the plague spots
  • White men, fall in
  • Driven out
  • Contagion
  • No return
  • The resistance
  • Native sons
  • Ruin and rebirth
  • The station
  • Becoming Chinese American
  • Confession.

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