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SUNY Oswego - Fall 2012 | ||
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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (1st Edition) by Erika Lee Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-8078-5448-4 / 0807854484 ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5448-8 / 9780807854488 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 |