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Orphan Bachelors
Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America
Ng, Fae Myenne http://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/orphan-bachelors-chinese-exclusion-act/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Date Written: 01/02/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban a nationality, as well as a victory for labor. Since the 1840s, whites moving to California considered the state to be for whites only and thought that any job held by a non-white was stolen from them.
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