The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America
What It Can Teach Us about America| By: | B. Railton |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137339089 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137339096 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity.