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Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United

States, 1848-82
  • ISBN-13: 9780252027758
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Najia Aarim
  • Price: AUD $271.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2003
  • Format: Hardback 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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The first detailed examination of the link between the “Chinese question and the “Negro problem in nineteenth-century America, this work forcefully and convincingly demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups during the same period.Najia Aarim-Heriot argues that previous studies on American Sinophobia have overemphasized the resentment labor organizations felt toward incoming Chinese workers. This focus has caused crucial elements of the discussion to be overlooked, especially the broader ways in which the growing nation sought to define and unify itself through the exclusion and oppression of nonwhite peoples. This book highlights striking similarities in the ways the Chinese and African American populations were disenfranchised during the mid-1800s, including nearly identical negative stereotypes, shrill rhetoric, and crippling exclusionary laws.Removing Chinese American history from the vacuum in which it has been traditionally studied, this book stands as a holistic examination of the causes and effects of American Sinophobia and the racialization of national immigration policies.
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 labour 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.
ADVANCE PRAISE ''In her carefully researched, well-argued and thoughtful book, Aarim-Heriot masterfully unravels the ideas that lie at the core of national politics, contextualizing Caucasian attitudes toward Chinese immigrants within the broad and comparative framework of race.'' -- John David Smith, author of Slavery, Race and American History.
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