Monday, April 15, 2019

the last book I ever read (Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers, excerpt seven)

from Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers:

In 1882 the United State decided, for the first time in its history, to place a blanket ban on a single ethnic group. The Chinese Exclusion Act put into place a ten-year moratorium on any new working-class immigration from China. It denied naturalization for any Chinese person already living in the United States and required anyone leaving the United States with the intention of returning to obtain a “certificate of return.” In 1888 another measure would cancel all the certificates of return, stranding nearly twenty thousand people.



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