Racism, dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the present : a documentary history / edited by Philip S. Foner and Daniel Rosenberg.

Other author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994.
Other author Rosenberg, Daniel, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Descriptionxi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesContributions in American history ; no. 148
Contributions in American history ; no. 148. ^A511951
Contents Pt. I. Law and Dissent -- 1. People v. Hall, 1854 -- 2. The "Coolie Trade," 1860 -- 3. Immigration Laws -- a. The Burlingame Treaty, 1868 -- b. The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 -- c. The Geary Bill, 1892 -- 4. Testimony before the Joint Committee on Chinese Immigration, 1876 -- a. Henry George -- b. Edward L. Cortage -- c. Albert M. Winn -- d. Dennis L. McCarty -- e. Reverend John Francis -- f. Solomon Heydenfeldt -- g. Charles S. Peck -- h. Henry C. Beals -- 5. Senator Charles Sumner on Naturalization Rights, 1870 -- 6. Frederick Bee before the Joint Committee, 1876 -- 7. Benjamin Brooks before the Joint Committee, 1876 -- 8. Senator George Hoar on Chinese Exclusion -- a. Debate in the Senate, 1879 -- b. Speech to the Senate, 1882 -- 9. Petition to Congress from Massachusetts, 1892 -- 10. Truth versus Fiction, 1902 -- 11. Anti-Alien Land Laws -- a. California, 1920 -- b. Washington, 1921 -- 12. Statements before the Hearings on Japanese Immigration, 1920 -- a. C.C. Pierce -- b. John P. Irish -- c. Erwin B. Ault -- d. The American Committee of Justice -- Pt. II. Statements by Public Figures and Organizations -- 1. Message to the Governor of California, 1855 -- 2. Mark Twain, "The Treaty with China," 1868 -- 3. Mark Twain on the Chinese -- a. "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy," 1870 -- b. "John Chinaman in New York," 1870 -- 4. The Henry George-John Stuart Mill Exchange, 1869 -- a. Henry George -- b. John Stuart Mill -- 5. Wendell Phillips on Chinese Exclusion, 1870 -- 6. Both Sides of the Chinese Question, 1877 -- 7. Argument of Joseph C.G. Kennedy, 1878 -- 8. The Pro-Chinese Minority of California, 1879 -- 9. Uncle Sam-ee and His Little Chi-nee, 1879 -- 10. William Lloyd Garrison on the Exclusion Debate, 1879 -- 11. "The Chinese Must Go," 1880 -- 12. The California Independent -- a. "A Historic Parallel," 1880 -- b. "San Francisco Press and the Chinese," 1880 -- 13. Judge Greene's Address to a Seattle Jury, 1885 -- 14. "The Chinese Must Stay," 1889 -- 15. The Chinese Equal Rights League, 1892 -- 16. "Suicide in Chinatown," 1893 -- 17. "John and Tacoma," 1895 -- 18. Joaquin Miller on Chinese Labor, 1901 -- 19. A Statement for Non-Exclusion, 1905 -- Pt. III. The Views of the Clergy -- 1. William Speer -- a. China and California, 1853 -- b. An Humble Plea, 1856 -- 2. "The Chinese Question," 1873 -- 3. Otis Gibson, 1877 -- 4. Anti-Chinese Legislation: A Sermon, 1879 -- 5. "Chinese Persecution," 1880 -- 6. Must the Chinese Go?, 1881 -- 7. A Petition from Methodists, 1886 -- 8. A Methodist Resolution, 1885 -- 9. M.L. Gates Denounces the Geary Bill, 1893 -- 10. The Anti-Japanese Agitation,1920 -- 11. Methodists Back the Japanese, 1924 -- 12. "Drop the Asiatic Color Bar," 1943 -- Pt. IV. The Labor Movement -- 1. The Colored National Labor Union, 1869 -- 2. Victoria Woodhull on Chinese Labor, 1870 -- 3. Chinese Labor: A Lecture, 1870 -- 4. The Labor Standard -- a. "The Anti-Chinese Movement," 1878 -- b. "The Chinese Must Go," 1878 -- c. A Response to "The Anti-Chinese Movement," 1878 -- d. "From the San Francisco Cigar Makers," 1878 -- 5. "The Chinese Question," 1878 -- 6. The Knights of Labor -- a. "Labor Dissensions," 1885 -- b. The Knights and Anti-Chinese Violence, 1885 -- 7. George Washington Woodbey, 1908 -- 8. Miners' Organizations -- a. The UMW Organizes Chinese and Japanese Miners, 1907 -- b. "Shall There Be War?", 1907 -- c. "Labor Day at Rock Springs," 1909 -- 9. The IWW and the Exclusion Issue, 1908 -- 10. IWW Organizing Among Chinese and Japanese Workers -- a. "Silly Race Prejudice," 1909 -- b. The General Strike in Vancouver, 1911 -- c. "Chinese Union Men Curse Scabs," 1911 -- 11. The Seattle Central Labor Council and the Japanese, 1914 -- 12. The AFL and Asian Workers -- a. Samuel Gompers on Labor in Japan, 1914 -- b. Japanese Immigrants and AFL Unions, 1916 -- 13. Karl Yoneda on Japanese American Labor, 1978 -- 14. West Coast Longshoremen and Racism, 1943 -- 15. The AFL and Chinese Exclusion, 1943 -- Pt. V. African-Americans -- 1. The Chinese in San Francisco, 1854 -- 2. Chinese Miners, 1855 -- 3. "Coolies" and Slavery, 1855 -- 4. Frederick Douglass on Missionaries in China, 1859 -- 5. Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation, 1869 -- 6. National Labor Convention of Colored Men, 1869 -- 7. "Freedmen versus Chinamen," 1869 -- 8. "Bring on Your Coolies: Who Cares," 1869 -- 9. "Freedmen and Chinamen," 1869 -- 10. "The Completeness of the Republic," 1870 -- 11. Frederick Douglass on the Chinese, 1870 -- 12. "The Chinese," 1873 -- 13. The Elevator: Anti-Chinese Editorials -- a. "The Gentile Chinese," 1873 -- b. "Chinese Immigration," 1873 -- c. "The Vexed Question," 1873 -- Pt. VI. Relocation and Protest -- 1. Executive Order 9066, 1942 -- 2. The Necessity of Evacuation, 1943 -- 3. Language, Culture, and Relocation, 1943 -- 4. Modern Repression and the Internment Legacy, 1969 -- 5. The Korematsu Case: Justice Murphy Dissents, 1944 -- 6. Concentration Camps USA: It Has Happened Here, 1960's -- 7. Karl Yoneda on His Internment, 1983 -- 8. Communists and the Evacuation, 1991 -- 9. Norman Thomas Opposes Relocation, 1942 -- 10. "Should All Japanese Continue to Be Excluded?", 1943 -- 11. What About other Japanese-Americans?, 1944 -- 12. A Quaker Challenges the Evacuation, 1977 -- 13. Days of Infamy, 1983 -- 14. Japanese Americans and Other Minorities, 1944 -- 15. W.E.B. DuBois on the Internment -- a. Hatred against the Japanese, 1943 -- b. The American Japanese, 1944 -- c. Race Hate on the West Coast, 1944 -- 16. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- a. Organizing in Hawaii, 1944 -- b. A Japanese-American ILWUer, 1944 -- c. "Bridges Lauds End of Japanese Ban," 1944 -- 17. The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment:Testimony, 1981 -- 18. A Case for Redress, 1976 -- 19. The Road to Redress -- a. Policy and Fallacy, 1983 -- b. Internment Exposed as Needless, 1983 -- c. Reparations, 1988 -- d. Redress and Equal Rights, 1989.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index.
LCCN 92038451
ISBN0313279136 (alk. paper)

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