Laws Harsh as Tigers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lucy E. Salyer
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: History; law
- Time of Work: 1891-1924
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Civil rights, Prejudices or antipathies, Law or legislation, Immigration or emigration, Aliens, illegal, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Naturalization
- Locales: United States
Passages from two classic works of history, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (2d ed., 1963), by John Higham, still the best single study of its subject, and Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (1963), by William Preston, Jr., suggest the perception of Chinese Americans in American history-writing a generation ago. In his preface, Higham explains that he “concentrated on the hostility of American nationalists toward European immigrants” because he “regarded opposition to certain non-European peoples, such as...
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