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

Author: Aarim-Heriot, Najia.

Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.

Descriptionxiv, 289 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

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