Hong, Jane H.,

Opening the gates to Asia : a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion / Jane H. Hong. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion -- Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal -- Manila prepares for the future: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine independence -- Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter act of 1952 -- Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns in the civil rights era.



9781469653389


Asians--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Asian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic Books.

E184 / .O646 2019