The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America
Authors: Railton, B.
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- About this book
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This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity.
- About the authors
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Ben Railton is Associate Professor of English Studies and American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Redefining American Identity: From Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama (2011); Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 (2007); and numerous articles on American literature and culture.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction: Teaching Americans the Chinese Exclusion Act
Pages 1-7
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What the Act Can Teach Us about Immigration History and Laws
Pages 8-26
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What the Act Can Teach Us about Diversity
Pages 27-44
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What the Act Can Teach Us about Forgotten and Inspiring American Stories
Pages 45-62
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Conclusion: So What?
Pages 63-69
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America
- Authors
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- B. Railton
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Ben Railton
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-33909-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137339096
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-33908-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-46427-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 74
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
