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Author McClain, Charles J., 1943-

Title In search of equality : the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America / Charles J. McClain.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  346.7301 M126C    Check Shelf
Description x, 385 pages ; 24 cm
Contents pt. I. The Beginnings of Discrimination and the First Chinese Responses. 1. California's First Anti-Chinese Laws. 2. Test Cases in the 1870s -- pt. II. The Decade of the 1880s: Seeking the Equal Protection of the Laws. 3. The California Constitutional Contention and Its Aftermath. 4. The Laundry Litigation of the 1880s. 5. The Struggle for Access to the Schools -- pt. III. The Decade of the 1880s: Court Contests with the Federal Government. 6. Federal Exclusion Act Litigation: The First Phase. 7. Seeking Federal Protection against Mob Violence: The Unusual Case of Baldwin v. Franks. 8. Federal Exclusion Act Litigation: The Second Phase -- pt. IV. Century's End: Last Episodes of Sinophobia. 9. Challenging Residential Segregation: The Case of In re Lee Sing. 10. Medicine, Race, and the Law: The Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-364) and indexes.
Subject Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
Indexed Term Ethnic groups Rights Law
United States
ISBN 0520083377 alkaline paper
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