The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Lew-Williams, Beth
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Lew-Williams, Beth

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Winner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and...
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Author: Beth Lew-Williams
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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Lew-Williams, Beth

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

$592.54
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Lew-Williams, Beth

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

$592.54
Author: Beth Lew-Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize
Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize
Winner of the Sally and Ken Owens Award
Winner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize
Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize

"A powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely."
--Richard White

"A riveting, beautifully written account...that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border."
--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn

In 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the concept of the "alien" in America.

Our story begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliens--and long before Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act, the nation's first attempt to bar immigration based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment failed to slow Chinese migration, armed vigilante groups took the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, policymakers redoubled their efforts to seal the borders, overhauling immigration law and transforming America's relationship with China in the process. By tracing the idea of the alien back to this violent era, Lew-Williams offers a troubling new origin story of today's racialized border.

"The Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogether...The stories of racist violence and community shunning are brutal to read."
--Rebecca Onion, Slate

Author: Beth Lew-Williams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674260351

About the Author
Lew-Williams, Beth: - Beth Lew-Williams is a historian of race and migration in the United States. She is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. The Chinese Must Go won five book awards, including the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.
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