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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Authored by Erika Lee
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

0:00 Intro
0:03 INTRODUCTION
43:32 PART I CLOSING THE GATES
57:18 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.



At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before.



Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources—including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters—Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erika Lee is the author of The Making of Asian America and coauthor, with Judy Yung, of Angel Island. She teaches history at the University of Minnesota, where she is also the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and director of the Immigration History Research Center.


Emily Woo Zeller's multilingual, multicultural framework led to a natural fit as an audiobook narrator. While she specializes in Asian American narratives, Emily's work spans a broad spectrum, including young adult fiction. She won an AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of Gulp by Mary Roach.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: July 3, 2018
ISBN: 9781977382528
Duration: 9 hr, 32 min
Genres: History / Asia / China, History / Asia / General, History / General, History / United States / 20th Century, History / United States / 21st Century, History / United States / General, Law / Civil Rights, Law / Discrimination, Law / Emigration & Immigration, Law / General, Political Science / Civil Rights, Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Discrimination