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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.

At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before.

Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources -- including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters -- Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

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IN 1876, H. N. CLEMENT, a San Francisco lawyer, stood before a California State Senate Committee and sounded the alarm: "The Chinese are upon us.

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  • Title At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
  • Author Erika Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-05-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780807854488 / 0807854484
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.38 x 0.93 in (23.22 x 16.21 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, United States - Emigration and immigration -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002013375
  • Dewey Decimal Code 325.235

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  • Choice, 01/01/2004, Page 975

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Erika Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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