Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians...
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Author: Jane H. Hong
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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion by Hong, Jane H.

Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

$118.93

Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

$118.93
Author: Jane H. Hong
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration.

The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America's postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage.



Author: Jane H. Hong
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/18/2019
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781469653365


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2020

About the Author
Hong, Jane H.: - Jane H. Hong is associate professor of history at Occidental College.

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