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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.
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About the author
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.
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Book Title: The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America
Authors: Ben Railton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339096
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Ben Railton 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33908-9Published: 11 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33909-6Published: 11 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 74
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian History, US History, Modern History, History of the Americas, Cultural History, Social History