... while efforts to assimilate immigrants continued in various forms. Finally, this chapter highlights the continued work of mainline Protestant leaders to challenge Asian exclusion and the ways they responded to Jewish refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany and legislation Congress considered during 1936...

... to overturn Asian exclusion once and for all, though with mixed results. American identity American Way of Life Barnes Roswell Christian nationalism Democracy immigrant heritage Nixon Justin Wroe Rauschenbusch Walter social gospel Southern Baptists Southern Baptist Convention SBC World War II...

...This essay reviews the historical literature on Asian exclusion in the United States. By tracing its historiographical trajectory, it shows how interpretations of Asian exclusion have changed over time. It pays especially close attention to recent scholarship, which has revisited Asian exclusion...

...This essay reviews the historical literature on Asian exclusion in the United States. By tracing its historiographical trajectory, it shows how interpretations of Asian exclusion have changed over time. It pays especially close attention to recent scholarship, which has revisited Asian exclusion...

... and inclusion to continue to coexist in U.S. immigration policy. anarchists Asian exclusion Caribbean quota system Congress U S eastern Europe Emergency Quota Act of 1921 family reunification Immigration Act of 1924 insanity Italian Americans Jewish Americans literacy test mental disability...

... policy at the national level. For the next decade, California s nativists worked to influence the federal government, which, even as it expanded the scope of Asian exclusion in 1917 by creating the Asiatic Barred Zone (primarily to prohibit the migration of British colonial subjects from India...

... aboriginal and immigrant activism colonial intimacy Thorpe Robbie Cox Emma Howard John responsibility Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma Watson Irene borders migration imperialism empire settler colonialism race Asian exclusion indigenous critical race studies postcolonialism. In legal...

...Chapter one examines the formation of Asian American writers in the era of Asian exclusion through a comparative analysis of Younghill Kang’s and Carlos Bulosan’s responses to Orientalism in their works. As legal exclusion created the racial category of Asian in the United States, migrant Asian...

... engagement and her transition onto the tenure track. The chapter reflects on the historical patterns of Orientalism and Asian exclusion that have given rise to anti-Asian sentiment and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author shares how this experience influenced her teaching and motivated her move...

... Ngai Mai Commons John R Race and Immigrants in America Commons empire labor Asian exclusion immigration sailors merchant marine Hawai’i the Philippines American Federation of Labor International Seamen’s Union of America Sailors Union of the Pacific With the United States in possession...

...0 16 09 2024 This book closes with the Coda, “Hindsight 20/20, or Asiatic Im-personality,” which revisits Edward Ross’s initial inspiration for the discourse of race suicide: Asian immigration. By overlaying the rhetoric of Asian exclusion at the turn of the century onto scenes of anti-Asian...

... embassy. Yung Kuai's story reveals the holes in Asian exclusion, from the welcomed presence of the CEM in New England even at the height of the anti-Chinese movement in California, and highlights the efforts of Americans such as missionaries, educators, and diplomats who treated Chinese as culturally...

...) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, the book explores the legal paradox whereby US law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic...