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The Integrated Alien: Chinese In The American West And Their Political And Legal Responses To Mob Violence, 1885-1886., Gabriel Lanham
The Integrated Alien: Chinese In The American West And Their Political And Legal Responses To Mob Violence, 1885-1886., Gabriel Lanham
History Undergraduate Theses
In the literature on anti-Chinese violence in the American West during the 1880s, the depiction of Chinese immigrants is often limited to that of a faceless group, the pawns in an American political struggle that they neither understood nor had agency in. This historical interpretation of the Chinese as a people entirely alien to their communities is largely based on an over-reliance on contemporary white sources while ignoring Chinese accounts. Many contemporary whites were unwilling to honestly describe their relationship with Chinese immigrants, either because of racial bias or because of the threat of mob violence against those perceived as …
The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa
The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa
All Master's Theses
This study is an effort to give an historical perspective on the Japanese living in the Puget Sound region up to 1940.