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The Chinese must go violence, exclusion, and the making of the alien in America Beth Lew-Williams

The book was purchased through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center In 1882, the United States launched an ...
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Alien nation : Chinese migration in the Americas from the coolie era through World War II / Elliott Young

Note on language and terminology -- Introduction: Aliens and the nation -- Part 1. Coolies and contracts, 1847-1874 -- Contested sovereignties : coolies on the high seas -- Contracting freedom -- Part ...