The Burden of White Supremacy
Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States
From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factor unifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions they caused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4696-3027-4
- EAN: 9781469630274
- Produktnummer: 19786530
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 334 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 539 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 539
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