John Doe Chinaman a forgotten history of Chinese life under American racial law
"Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labor. Over the next seventy years, officials in California, Oregon, Washington, and other western states instituted mo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2025.
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