Opening the gates to Asia a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion

Opening the gates to Asia : a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion / Jane H. Hong.

Author/creator	Hong, Jane H.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description	xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles
Subject(s)	Asians--United States --Social conditions --20th century. Asian Americans--Social conditions --20th century. United States--Emigration and immigration --Government policy --History --20th century. Asia--Emigration and immigration --History --20th century.

Contents	Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion -- Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal -- Manila prepares for the future: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine independence -- Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter act of 1952 -- Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns in the civil rights era.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019011077
ISBN	9781469653358 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781469653365 (pbk : alk. paper)

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