In search of equality : the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America / Charles J. McClain.
This illuminating volume probes the efforts of the Chinese community to battle the manifold kinds of discrimination encountered at the hands of government during the nineteenth century. Contrary to the stereotypical image of a passive, uninvolved, and insular group, the population revealed by Charle...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The beginnings of discrimination and the first Chinese responses. California's first anti-Chinese laws
- Test cases in the 1870s
- pt. II. The decade of the 1880s: seeking the equal protection of the laws. The california constitutional contention and its aftermath
- The laundry litigation of the 1880s
- The struggle for access to the schools
- pt. III. The decade of the 1880s: court contests with the federal government. Federal Exclusion Act litigation: the first phase
- Seeking federal protection against mob violence: the unusual case of Baldwin V. Franks
- Federal Exclusion Act litigation: the second phase
- pt. IV. Century's end: last episodes of sinophobia. Challenging residential segregation: the case of in Re Lee Sing
- Medicine, race, and the law: the bubonic plague outbreak of 1900.