Research Guides @ Fordham: Chinese American History: Chinese Exclusion & Resistance

Selected Books

Opening the Gates to Asia [electronic resource] : A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion by Jane H. Hong
University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
The Chinese Must Go : Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams
Harvard University Press, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks] E184.C5 L564 2018
Paper Families : Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion by Estelle T. Lau
Duke University Press, 2006.
Call number [RH & LC Stacks] E184.C5 L38 2006
At America's Gates : Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
University of Nortn Carolina Press, 2003.
Call number [RH Stacks] E184.C5 L34 2003
Closing the Gate : Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Andrew Gyory
University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Call number [RH Stacks] E184.C5 G9 1998
Laws Harsh As Tigers : Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law by Lucy E. Salyer
University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Call number [RH Stacks] JV6874 .S25 1995

Chinese Immigrant Study Guide, paper book, Smithsonian Institution. 1938.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

For additional books, try the following subject headings in library catalogs and databases:

Asian Americans--History
Asia--Emigration and immigration--History
Chinese--United States--History--19th century
Emigration and immigration law--United States--History
United States--Race relations--History--19th century

Selected Primary Sources

Chinese Exclusion Act, Pub. L. No. at. 58, Chap. 126, 22 Stat. 58, Chap. 126 (1882) via Legislative Insight
Find the original text of the law along with its legislative history including different versions of the bill, debates, hearings, and more.

→ See the Primary Sources & Search Tips page for resources to examine laws and court cases.

Chinese Exclusion Act: Primary Documents in American History via the Library of Congress
Offers primary source materials associated with the Chinese Exclusion Act including books, newspaper articles, government documents, and broadsides.

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