John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law -- Beth Lew-Williams, Hardcover

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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law -- Beth Lew-Williams, HardcoverA revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination. Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labor. Over the next seventy years, officials in California, Oregon, Washington, and other

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