Opening the gates to Asia : a transpacific history of how America repealed Asian exclusion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hong, Jane H. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Asians > United States > Social conditions > 20th century. Asian Americans > Social conditions > 20th century. United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History > 20th century. Asia > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion
Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal
Manila prepares for independence: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine decolonization
Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns during the civil rights era.