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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Table of Contents:
- The "coolie" and the threat of Chinese labor
- The "criminal" and the fear of a Chinese underclass
- The "alien" and the reconstruction of Chinese rights
- The "Chinawoman" and the search for runaways
- The "invader" and the entrenchment of Chinese segregation
- The "predator" and the problem of interracial intimacy
- The "immigrant" and the meaning of Chinese exclusion
- Appendix. Selected sections of statutes regulating Chinese residents.
