Chinese immigrants, African Americans, and racial anxiety in the United States, 1848-82

Chinese immigrants, African Americans, and racial anxiety in the United States, 1848-82 / Najia Aarim-Heriot.

Author/creator	Aarim-Heriot, Najia
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2003.
Description	xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Chinese Americans--Social conditions --19th century. Immigrants--United States --Social conditions --19th century. Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. --19th century. African Americans--Social conditions --19th century. African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. --19th century. Racism--United States --History --19th century. United States--Race relations --Political aspects. United States--Politics and government --1849-1877. United States--Politics and government --1877-1881.

Series	Asian American experience Asian American experience. ^A326577
Contents	Racial nativism in America until 1850 -- The beginning of the Negroization of the Chinese in California, 1850-53 -- "The Copper of the Pacific" and "the Ebony of the Atlantic" : race relations, 1854-60 -- Race relations in the Civil War era -- Congressional Reconstruction and the race questions, 1865-69 -- Americans and the Chinese question, 1865-69 -- Chinese labor in the South and in New England, 1865-70 -- Chinese immigrants, African Americans, and the retreat from Reconstruction, 1870-74 -- Race relations in California, 1870-74 -- Intensification of the anti-Chinese movement, 1874-80 -- The politics of racism in the Chinese exclusion debates, 1879-82.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.
LCCN	2002005249
ISBN	0252027752 (Cloth : alk. paper)

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